title: ["Cholos de Coclé": determination of their racial mixture and genetic origins].
abstract: We have found, in this first genetic study of a supposedly admixed Panamanian population, that the cultural group known as "cholos of Coclé" constitute a trihybrid mixture, whose genetic pool has the following composition: 44% Amerindian, 38% Caucasoid and 18% Negroid. Similarly, we have detected Amerindian genes, such as LDHB--Gua and TFchi, in proportions that relate this population with the extant Ngawbé (Guaymí). Nevertheless, the very high frequency of variant PEPA--KUN seems to indicate the genetic contribution of Amerindian populations from Eastern Panama, possibly from the extinct indigenous group cueva. This variant is frequently found among the present-day Kuna, but has not been detected among Nagawbé and Buglé.
authors.affiliation: Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad de Panamá.
authors.forename: T D
authors.initials: TD
authors.lastname: Arias
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Barrantes
authors.forename: L F
authors.initials: LF
authors.lastname: Jorge
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Azofeifa
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Carles
authors.forename: R G
authors.initials: RG
authors.lastname: Cooke
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007197:Indians, Central American / Q000235:genetics*; D010176:Panama
vernacular_title: Estudio sobre los "cholos de Coclé": determinación de su mezcla racial y orígenes genéticos.