["Cholos de Coclé": determination of their racial mixture and genetic origins].
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.
Arias
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Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad de Panamá.
Barrantes
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R
Jorge
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LF
Azofeifa
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J
Carles
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M
Cooke
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RG
D006801:Humans; D007197:Indians, Central American / Q000235:genetics*; D010176:Panama
Estudio sobre los "cholos de Coclé": determinación de su mezcla racial y orígenes genéticos.