Thursday, December 17, 2009

Argentineans are mostly a mix of European and Native American

New research shows that Argentineans carry a large fraction of European genetic heritage in their Y-chromosomal (94.1%) and autosomal (78.5%) DNA, but their mitochondrial gene pool is mostly of Native American ancestry (53.7%) while African heritage is small in all three genetic systems (less than 4%).

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How Argentina became white

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