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    Impact of patrilocality on contrasting patterns of paternal and maternal heritage in Central-West Africa

    Despite their ancient past and high diversity, African populations are the least represented in human population genetic studies. In this study, uniparental markers (mtDNA and Y chromosome) were used to invest...

    Masinda Nguidi, Verónica Gomes, Carlos Vullo, Pedro Rodrigues in Scientific Reports (2024)

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    Searching for the roots of the first free African American community

    San Basilio de Palenque is an Afro-descendant community near Cartagena, Colombia, founded in the sixteenth century. The recognition of the historical and cultural importance of Palenque has promoted several st...

    Beatriz Martínez, Filipa Simão, Verónica Gomes, Masinda Nguidi in Scientific Reports (2020)

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    Skin pigmentation and genetic variants in an admixed Brazilian population of primarily European ancestry

    Although many genes have been shown to be associated with human pigmentary traits and forensic prediction assays exist (e.g. HIrisPlex-S), the genetic knowledge about skin colour remains incomplete. The highly...

    Jeppe D. Andersen, Olivia S. Meyer, Filipa Simão in International Journal of Legal Medicine (2020)

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    Genetic characterization of Rio de Janeiro for different Y-STR sets

    In this work, the YfilerPlus kit was used to investigate a sample of 258 males from Rio de Janeiro. In addition, the previous database of 760 Yfiler profiles deposited in the YHRD was updated to 1610. YfilerPl...

    Juliana Jannuzzi, Patrícia Domingues in International Journal of Legal Medicine (2018)