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The Frequency of Major ABCG2 , SLCO1B1 and CYP2C9 Variants in Asian, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Women Subgroups: Implications for Personalized Statins Dosing
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Khalifa Alrajeh, Ola AlAzzeh, Youssef Roman · Pharmacogenomics · 2023 · Journal article

Genetic characterization of populations in the Marquesas Archipelago in the context of the Austronesian expansion
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Kai Tätte, Ene Metspalu, Helen Post, Leire Palencia-Madrid, Javier Rodríguez Luis, Maere Reidla, Erika Tamm, Anne-Mai Ilumäe, Marian M. de Pancorbo, Ralph Garcia-Bertrand, Mait Metspalu, Rene J. Herrera · Scientific Reports · 2022 · Journal article

Our exploration of the genetic constitution of Nuku Hiva (n = 51), Hiva Oa (n = 28) and Tahuata (n = 8) of the Marquesas Archipelago based on the analyses of genome-wide autosomal markers as well as high-resolution genotyping of paternal and maternal lineages provides us with...

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John R. Haglelgam · The Contemporary Pacific · 2011 · Journal article

Melanesian and Asian Origins of Polynesians: mtDNA and Y Chromosome Gradients Across the Pacific
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Manfred Kayser, Silke Brauer, Richard Cordaux, Amanda Casto, Oscar Lao, Lev A. Zhivotovsky, Claire Moyse-Faurie, Robb B. Rutledge, Wulf Schiefenhoevel, David Gil, Alice A. Lin, Peter A. Underhill, Peter J. Oefner, Ronald J. Trent, Mark Stoneking · Molecular Biology and Evolution · 2006 · Journal article

Saili Matagi: Samoan Migrants in Australia
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Unasa, Leulu Felise Vaʻa · editorips@usp.ac.fj · 2001 · Book

An exploration of the practice of fa'a-Samoa among migrants, of the nature of the politics of traditionn within their communities and of the search for opportunities in new environments.

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Testing migration patterns and estimating founding population size in Polynesia by using human mtDNA sequences
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Rosalind P. Murray-McIntosh, Brian J. Scrimshaw, Peter J. Hatfield, David Penny · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1998 · Journal article

<jats:p>The hypervariable 1 region of human mtDNA shows markedly reduced variability in Polynesians, and this variability decreases from western to eastern Polynesia. Fifty-four sequences from New Zealand Maori show that the mitochondrial variability with just four haplotypes is...

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