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Genetic portrait of Lisboa immigrant population from Cabo Verde with mitochondrial DNA analysis

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[Morais P., Amorim A., Vieira da Silva C., Ribeiro T., Costa Santos J. and Afonso Costa H. 2015 Genetic portrait of Lisboa immigrant population from Cabo Verde with mitochondrial DNA analysis. J. Genet. 94, xx–xx]

António Amorim, Cláudia Vieira da Silva, Teresa Ribeiro, Jorge Costa Santos, and Heloísa Afonso Costa are the authors belong to CENCIFOR research group.

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MORAIS, P., AMORIM, A., VIEIRA DA SILVA, C. et al. Genetic portrait of Lisboa immigrant population from Cabo Verde with mitochondrial DNA analysis. J Genet 94, 509–512 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12041-015-0552-7

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