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Natural selection and demographic transition in a Zapotec-speaking genetic isolate in the Valley of Oaxaca, southern Mexico

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Pages 34-49 | Received 02 Jul 2007, Accepted 04 Oct 2007, Published online: 09 Jul 2009

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