Mitochondrial portrait of the Cabo Verde archipelago: the Senegambian outpost of Atlantic slave trade

In order to study the matrilineal genetic composition in Cabo Verde (Republic of Cape Verde), an archipelago that used to serve as a Portuguese entrepôt of the Atlantic slave trade, we have analysed a total of 292 mtDNAs sampled from the seven inhabited islands for the hypervariable segment I (HVS-I...

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Main Author: Brehm, A (author)
Other Authors: Pereira, L (author), Bandelt, H-J (author), Prata, MJ (author), Amorim, A (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2002
Subjects:
African Continental Ancestry Group
Amino Acid Sequence
Atlantic Islands
Atlantic Ocean
DNA Mitochondrial/genetics
Emigration and Immigration
European Continental Ancestry Group
Gambia/ethnology
Genetic Variation
Genetics, Population
Haplotypes
Humans
Polymorphism Genetic
Polymorphism Restriction Fragment Length
Portugal/ethnology
Senegal/ethnology
Sequence Analysis DNA
Social Problems
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10216/109594
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorio-aberto.up.pt:10216/109594

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http://hdl.handle.net/10216/109594

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