Reconstructing the history of Mesoamerican populations through the study of the mitochondrial DNA control region.

ABSTRACT: The study of genetic information can reveal a reconstruction of human population's history. We sequenced the entire mtDNA control region (positions 16.024 to 576 following Cambridge Reference Sequence, CRS) of 605 individuals from seven Mesoamerican indigenous groups and one Aridoamerican from the Greater Southwest previously defined, all of them in present Mexico. Samples were collected directly from the indigenous populations, the application of an individual survey made it possible to remove related or with other origins samples. Diversity indices and demographic estimates were calculated. Also AMOVAs were calculated according to different criteria. An MDS plot, based on FST distances, was also built. We carried out the construction of individual networks for the four Amerindian haplogr

SUBMITTER: Gorostiza A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3446984 | biostudies-literature | 2012

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature