High resolution of human evolutionary trees with polymorphic microsatellites

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Summary

It is shown that polymorphic microsatellites (primarily CA repeats) allow trees of human individuals to be constructed that reflect their geographic origin with remarkable accuracy by the analysis of a large number of loci for each individual, in spite of the small variations in allele frequencies existing between populations.

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1994-03-31
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Microsatellite, Evolutionary biology, Biology, Allele, Human genetic variation

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