A preliminary analysis of the DNA and di
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Melanie Kuch; Darren R. Gröcke; Martin C. Knyf; M. Thomas P. Gilbert; Ban Youngh
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Article
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2007
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract We have used a systematic protocol for extracting, quantitating, sexing and validating ancient human mitochondrial and nuclear DNA of one male and one female Beothuk, a Native American population from Newfoundland, which became extinct ∼180 years ago. They carried mtDNA haplotypes, whic