Human Heredity: Principles and Issues (MindTap Course List)
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To determine: The evidence which suggests that the presence of haplotype X in genomes of Native American emerged from gene flow from the western Eurasians into Siberians or when early Europeans migrated across the Atlantic Ocean.
Introduction: The concept of gene flow is widely used in population genetics. The gene flow can be defined as the flow or movement of genes from one population to the other that belong to particular species
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Human Heredity: Principles and Issues (MindTap Course List)
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