[Genetic composition of Chilean population: the Pehuenches from Trapa-Trapa].
This study describes the genetic composition of Pehuenche indians from Trapa-Trapa. The admixture analysis revealed that this group has conserved most of its pre-Columbian gene pool and therefore, is representative of the indians that lived in Southern Chile before the Spanish conquest. A relatively high frequency of a esterase D variant seems to indicate that this is a Chilean aboriginal population marker. The Chilean Pehuenches are genetically similar to their Argentinean relatives, which is not surprising since this last group crossed the Andes Mountains in historic times.
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Departamento de Biología Celular y Genética, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile Campus Norte.
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Acuña
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Moreno
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Barton
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Aspillaga
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Rothhammer
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D001789:Blood Group Antigens / Q000032:analysis; D002677:Chile; D005787:Gene Frequency; D005819:Genetic Markers / Q000235:genetics; D006239:Haplotypes; D006801:Humans; D007199:Indians, South American / Q000235:genetics*; D010641:Phenotype
D001789:Blood Group Antigens; D005819:Genetic Markers
Composición genética de la población chilena: los Pehuenches de Trapa-Trapa.