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Article: Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphisms of Type I Collagen Locus 2 (COL1A2) in Two Communities of African Ancestry and Other Mixed Populations of Northwestern Ecuador
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- Human Biology
- Article date:
- February 1, 2005
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Abstract
Restriction fragment length polymorphisms are good anthropological markers for discriminating geographically distinct populations at both the allele and the haplotype level. Two communities of African ancestry and ladinos, mestizos, and mulattoes living in the Esmeraldas province in northwestern Ecuador were analyzed for three RFLPs (EcoRI, RsaI, and MspI) of the COL1A2 gene. Also, the same markers were studied in a population sample from Spain to compare the allele and haplotype frequencies of the Esmeraldas populations with those of their representative European parental population. Data for the native American and sub-Saharan African founder components were available from the ...