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Paternal European Ancestry in French Polynesia Detected by Y-Chromosome Haplotypes
- Human Biology
- Wayne State University Press
- Volume 75, Number 1, February 2003
- pp. 129-133
- 10.1353/hub.2003.0025
- Article
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Abstract
Y-chromosome-specific polymorphisms p49f-a/TaqI were studied in a sample of 68 French Polynesians, and five haplotypes were observed. Three of them were haplotypes characteristic of European ancestry. The mean haplotype (45.6%) in French Polynesia is haplotype XV, a typical western European haplotype. Such an elevated frequency of European haplotypes is due to male gene flow from Europeans in French Polynesia.
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