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    • Peña Ahumada, Bárbara; Saldarriaga Córdoba, Mónica; Kardailsky, Olga; Moncada, Ximena; Moraga Vergara, Mauricio; Matisoo Smith, Elizabeth; Seelenfreund, Daniela; Seelenfreund, Andrea (Public Library Science, 2020)
      Humans introduced paper mulberry (Broussonetia papyrifera) from Taiwan into the Pacific over 5000 years ago as a fiber source to make barkcloth textiles that were, and still are, important cultural artifacts throughout the ...
    • Saint Pierre, Michelle de; Bravi, Claudio; Motti, Josefina; Fuku, Noriyuki; Tanaka, Masashi; Llop Romero, Elena; Bonatto, Sandro L.; Moraga Vergara, Mauricio (2012)
      After several years of research, there is now a consensus that America was populated from Asia through Beringia, probably at the end of the Pleistocene. But many details such as the timing, route(s), and origin of the ...
    • Aspillaga Fontaine, Eugenio; Moraga Vergara, Mauricio; Santoro, Calogero; Standen, Vivien; Carvallo, Pilar; Rothhammer Engel, Francisco (2001)
      La hipótesis del origen amazónico de las poblaciones andinas basada en el análisis de marcadores genéticos nucleares es contrastada haciendo uso de ADN mitocondrial antiguo aislado de restos esqueletales de poblaciones ...
    • Fuente, Constanza de la; Galimany, Jacqueline; Kemp, Brian M.; Judd, Kathleen; Reyes, Omar; Moraga Vergara, Mauricio (Wiley & Sons, 2015)
      Objectives: The human population history from Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego has been of great interest in the context of the American peopling. Different sources of evidence have contributed to the characterization of the ...
    • Saint Pierre, Michelle de; Gandini, Francesca; Perego, Ugo A.; Bodner, Martin; Corach, Daniel; Angerhofer, Norman; Woodward, Scott R.; Semino, Ornella; Salas, Antonio; Parson, Walther; Moraga Vergara, Mauricio; Achilli, Alessandro; Torroni, Antonio; Olivieri, Anna; Gómez Carballa, Alberto (2012)
      With analyses of entire mitogenomes, studies of Native American mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) variation have entered the final phase of phylogenetic refinement: the dissection of the founding haplogroups into clades that arose ...
    • Tapia, Teresa; Sánchez, Alejandro; Vallejos, Maricarmen; Álvarez, Carolina; Moraga Vergara, Mauricio; Smalley, Susan; Camus, Mauricio; Álvarez, Manuel; Carvallo, Pilar (2008)
      Besides BRCA1 and BRCA2, two genes accounting for a small proportion of breast cancer cases, ATM has been widely proposed as a low-penetrance susceptibility gene. Several nucleotide changes have been proposed to be ...
    • Llop Romero, Elena; Henríquez B., Hugo; Moraga Vergara, Mauricio; Castro Domínguez, Mario; Rothhammer Engel, Francisco (WILEY-LISS, DIV JOHN WILEY, 2006-12)
      A molecular characterization of alleles O-1, O-1variant (O-1v), and the mutation G542A of the ABO blood group was performed in two Amerindian populations of Chile, the Aymara (n = 84) and the Huilliche (n = 75). In addition, ...
    • Llop Romero, Elena; Henríquez B., Hugo; Moraga Vergara, Mauricio; Castro Domínguez, Mario; Rothhammer Engel, Francisco (SOC MEDICA SANTIAGO, 2006-07)
      Background: Among the allelic variants of blood groups, the molecular characterization of ABO blood group has clinical and anthropological importance. Aim: To perform a characterization of the molecular variants of the ...
    • Verdugo Salgado, Ricardo; Di Genova, Alex; Herrera Cisterna, Luisa; Moraga Vergara, Mauricio; Acuña Patzke, Mónica; Berríos del Solar, María Soledad; Llop Romero, Elena; Valenzuela, Carlos Y.; Bustamante Calderón, María Leonor; Digman, Dayhana; Symon Maturana, Adriana; Asenjo, Soledad; López Contreras, Pamela; Blanco, Alejandro E.; Suazo Sanhueza, José; Barozet, Emmanuelle; Caba, Fresia; Villalón Calderón, Marcelo; Alvarado Orellana, Sergio; Cáceres Lillo, Dante; Salgado, Katherine; Portales, Pilar; Moreno Estrada, Andrés; Gignoux, Christopher; Sandoval, Karla; Bustamante, Carlos; Eng, Celeste; Huntsman, Scott; Burchard, Esteban; Loira, Nicolás; Maass Sepúlveda, Alejandro; Cifuentes Ovalle, Lucía (Sociedad de Biología de Chile, 2020)
      Background Current South American populations trace their origins mainly to three continental ancestries, i.e. European, Amerindian and African. Individual variation in relative proportions of each of these ancestries may ...
    • Fuente, C. de la; Flores Carrasco, Sergio; Moraga Vergara, Mauricio (2013)
      We report a molecular methodology to obtain and analyse ancient bacterial DNA from archaeological dental calculus. Recent and archaeological DNA samples, as old as 4000 BP, were successfully extracted and amplified with ...
    • Acuna, Mariana; Martinez, Pablo; Moraga, Carol; He, Xingxuan; Moraga Vergara, Mauricio; Hunter, Bessie; Nuernberg, Peter; Gutierrez, Rodrigo; González Canales, Mauricio; Schuchman, Edward; Luis Santos, Jose; Francisco Miquel, Juan; Mabe, Paulina; Zanlungo, Silvana (NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP, 2016)
      Niemann-Pick disease type B (NPDB) is a rare, inherited lysosomal storage disorder that occurs due to variants in the sphingomyelin phosphodiesterase 1 (SMPD1) gene and the resultant deficiency of acid sphingomyelinase ...
    • Fuente, Constanza de la; Avila Arcos, María; Carpenter, Meredith L.; Homburger, Julian; Blanco, Alejandro; Contreras, Paloma; Moreno Estrada, Andrés; Campos, Paula F.; Eng, Celeste; Huntsman, Scott; Burchard, Esteban G.; Bustamante, Carlos; Willerslev, Eske; Llop Romero, Elena; Verdugo, Ricardo; Moraga Vergara, Mauricio (WILEY-BLACKWELL, 2016)
    • Reyes Báez, Omar; Moraga Vergara, Mauricio; Méndez Melgar, César; Cherkinsky, Alexander (Taylor & Francis, 2015)
      This article presents the current advances in archeological research on the Western Patagonian Channels, specifically the Chonos Archipelago (43 degrees 50'-46 degrees 50' S). Based on a large spatial scale, we aim to ...
    • Moraga Vergara, Mauricio; Rocco, Paola; Miquel, Juan F.; Nervi, Flavio; Llop Romero, Elena; Chakraborty, Ranajit; Rothhammer Engel, Francisco; Carvallo, Pilar (Wiley-Liss, 2000-09)
      The mitochondrial DNAs (mtDNAs) from individuals belonging to three Chilean tribes, the Mapuche, the Pehuenche, and the Yaghan, were studied both by RFLP analysis and D-loop (control region) sequencing. RFLP analysis ...
    • Póntigo, Fabián; Moraga Vergara, Mauricio; Flores Carrasco, Sergio (FUNPEC, 2015)
      Alternative phylogenies for the genus Streptococcus have been proposed due to uncertainty about the among-species group relationships. Here, we performed a phylogenetic analysis of the genus Streptococcus, considering ...
    • Manríquez Soto, Germán Raúl; Moraga Vergara, Mauricio; Santoro, Calogero; Aspillaga Fontaine, Eugenio; Arriaza, Bernardo T.; Rothhammer Engel, Francisco (2011)
      For decades anthropologists have discussed how and when the Americas were peopled. The prevailing view is that the first Paleoindians, ancestors of the Amerindians, arrived from Asia and Beringia to the American continent ...
    • García, Federico; Moraga Vergara, Mauricio; Vera, Soledad; Henríquez B., Hugo; Llop Romero, Elena; Aspillaga Fontaine, Eugenio; Rothhammer Engel, Francisco (WILEY-LISS, DIV JOHN WILEY & SONS INC, 2006-03)
      The genetic variability of four predominantly Indian populations of southern Chile's archipelagos was examined by determining the frequencies of four mitochondrial DNA haplogroups that characterize the American Indian ...
    • Ioannidis, Alexander G.; Blanco Portillo, Javier; Sandoval, Karla; Hagelberg, Erika; Miquel-Poblete, Juan Francisco; Moreno Mayar, J. Víctor; Rodríguez Rodríguez, Juan Esteban; Auckland, Kathryn; Parks, Tom; Robson, Kathryn; Hill, Adrian V. S.; Ávila Arcos, María C.; Sockell, Alexandra; Homburger, Julian R; Wojcik, Genevieve L.; Barnes, Kathleen C.; Herrera, Luisa M.; Berríos, Soledad; Acuña, Mónica; Llop, Elena; Eng, Celeste; Huntsman, Scott; Burchard, Esteban G.; Gignoux, Christopher R.; Cifuentes, Lucía O.; Verdugo Salgado, Ricardo; Moraga Vergara, Mauricio; Mentzer, Alexander J.; Bustamante, Carlos D.; Moreno Estrada, Andrés (Nature, 2020)
      The possibility of voyaging contact between prehistoric Polynesian and Native American populations has long intrigued researchers. Proponents have pointed to the existence of New World crops, such as the sweet potato and ...
    • Rothhammer Engel, Francisco; Moraga Vergara, Mauricio; Santoro, Calogero M.; Arriaza, Bernardo T. (2010)
      Sophisticated molecular genetics techniques allow the typification and posterior comparison of antique haplogroups and mitochondrial DNA sequences from prehistoric groups with contemporary populations. This adds a ...
    • Aspillaga Fontaine, Eugenio; García, Federico; Moraga Vergara, Mauricio; Vera, Soledad; Henríquez B., Hugo; Llop Romero, Elena; Ocampo, Carlos; Rothhammer Engel, Francisco (2004)
      Las etnias originarias del archipiélago de Chiloé presentan características culturales que plantean preguntas acerca de su origen como entidad genética independiente y distinta del grupo continental. Al respecto, ...