This study analyzed 102 mtDNA control region sequences with the objective of classifying them into sub-haplogroups and estimating their continental origin. Principal component analysis of the western Eurasian sub-haplogroups ...

It is well known that indigenous mitochondrial haplogroups A and C are predominant in the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico. Medium networks built of sequences of the hypervariable regions of mtDNA have identified 13 ...

This study aims to clarify the uncertainties of the African maternal origin of the Puerto Rico modern population that occurred during the slave trade. Haplogroup L3e was chosen for this study because it combines the ...