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| Farias,Josileide Duarte de; Santos,Marlene Guimarães; França,Andonai Krauze de; Delani,Daniel; Tada,Mauro Shugiro; Casseb,Almeida Andrade; Simões,Aguinaldo Luiz; Engracia,Vera. |
| Since around 1723, on the occasion of its initial colonization by Europeans, Rondonia has received successive waves of immigrants. This has been further swelled by individuals from northeastern Brazil, who began entering at the beginning of the twentieth century. The ethnic composition varies across the state according to the various sites of settlement of each wave of immigrants. We analyzed the frequency of the CCR5L32 allele of the CCR5 chemokine receptor, which is considered a Caucasian marker, in five sample sets from the population. Four were collected in Porto Velho, the state capital and the site of several waves of migration. Of these, two, from the Hospital de Base were comprised of HB Mothers and HB Newborns presenting allele frequencies of 3.5%... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: CCR5; CCR5Δ32; Rondônia; Genetic polymorphism; Allele frequency. |
| Ano: 2012 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-47572012000100003 |
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