Sampling efficiency for Amerindian female lineages

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2006

Authors

Pereira, L (Author) Other; Goios, A (Author) Other; Amorim, A (Author) FCUP

Journal

Title: International Congress Series

Vol. 1288

Pages: 322-324

ISSN: 0531-5131

Publisher: Elsevier B.V.

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Authenticus ID: P-007-FEH

DOI: 10.1016/j.ics.2005.09.005

Abstract (EN): Sampling strategy is the first potential biasing factor in population diversity analyses, especially when surveying is done in small communities and uniparental markers are being characterised. Amerindian tribes, known to have been subject to strong bottlenecks and genetic drifts, are being the focus of most works dealing with Amerindian female lineages description, although the few characterised town samples have shown to contain as much as 1/3 of these lineages in its pool. In this work we show that Amerindian female lineage diversity is higher when analysing town samples than when pooling small but scattered tribal samples. A sampling strategy in surveying towns (especially those known to have incorporated Amerindian females) would reveal that much diversity is still underscored in present databases in a faster and easier way, avoiding anthropological missions and their corresponding difficulties and problems.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 3