Revisiting the Diego Blood Group System in Amerindians: Evidence for Gene-Culture Comigration

International audience Six decades ago the DI*A allele of the Diego blood group system was instrumental in proving Native American populations originated from Siberia. Since then, it has received scant attention. The present study was undertaken to reappraise distribution of the DI*A allele in 144 N...

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Published in:PLOS ONE
Main Authors: Bégat, Chirstophe, Bailly, Pascal, Chiaroni, Jacques, Mazières, Stéphane
Other Authors: Anthropologie bio-culturelle, Droit, Ethique et Santé (ADES), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-EFS ALPES MEDITERRANEE-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Etablissement Français du Sang Provence-Alpes Côte-d'Azur et Corse (EFS)
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: HAL CCSD 2015
Subjects:
Native American people
Population genetics
Genetic polymorphism
Sociolinguistics
Culture
Linguistic geography
Genetic loci
Blood groups
anthro-se
socio
Chaco
aleut
eskimo*
Eskimo–Aleut
Subarctic
Siberia
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0132211
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01820037

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