Forensic Science International: Genetics
Volume 2, Issue 3 , Pages e37-e39 , June 2008

Genetic admixture and diversity estimations in the Mexican Mestizo population from Mexico City using 15 STR polymorphic markers

  • Teresa Juárez-Cedillo

      Affiliations

    • Epidemiological Research and Health Services Unit, Centro Médico Nacional Siglo XXI, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Mexico City, Mexico
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  • Joaquín Zuñiga

      Affiliations

    • Immunobiology and Genetics Laboratory, Instituto Nacional de Enfermedades Respiratorias and Departments of Cancer Immunology and AIDS, DFCI and Pathology Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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  • Victor Acuña-Alonzo

      Affiliations

    • Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico City, Mexico
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  • Nonanzit Pérez-Hernández

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physiology and Cardiovascular Disease's Genomic and Proteomic Study Group, Instituto Nacional de Cardiología Ignacio Chávez, Mexico City, Mexico
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  • José Manuel Rodríguez-Pérez

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physiology and Cardiovascular Disease's Genomic and Proteomic Study Group, Instituto Nacional de Cardiología Ignacio Chávez, Mexico City, Mexico
    • ,
  • Rodrigo Barquera

      Affiliations

    • Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico City, Mexico
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  • Guillermo J. Gallardo

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physiology and Cardiovascular Disease's Genomic and Proteomic Study Group, Instituto Nacional de Cardiología Ignacio Chávez, Mexico City, Mexico
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  • Rosalinda Sánchez-Arenas

      Affiliations

    • Epidemiological Research and Health Services Unit, Centro Médico Nacional Siglo XXI, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Mexico City, Mexico
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  • Maria del Carmen García-Peña

      Affiliations

    • Epidemiological Research and Health Services Unit, Centro Médico Nacional Siglo XXI, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Mexico City, Mexico
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  • Julio Granados

      Affiliations

    • Department of Immunology and Rheumatology, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Medicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Mexico City, Mexico
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  • Gilberto Vargas-Alarcón

      Affiliations

    • Department of Physiology and Cardiovascular Disease's Genomic and Proteomic Study Group, Instituto Nacional de Cardiología Ignacio Chávez, Mexico City, Mexico
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author at: Department of Physiology and Cardiovascular Disease's Genomic and Proteomic Study Group, Instituto Nacional de Cardiología Ignacio Chávez, Juan Badiano #1, Col. Sección XVI, Tlalpan 14050, Mexico City, Mexico. Tel.: +52 55 5573 29 11x1268.

Received 20 February 2007 ,Revised 27 August 2007 ,Accepted 30 August 2007.

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PII: S1872-4973(07)00145-7

doi: 10.1016/j.fsigen.2007.08.017

Forensic Science International: Genetics
Volume 2, Issue 3 , Pages e37-e39 , June 2008

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