The Ancestry of the Ecuadorian “Mestiza” Population in Light of Informative Markers of Ancestry, Mitochondrial DNA and STRs of Sex Chromosomes
The Ecuadorian population is the result of a complex mix of three different origins: indigenous peoples, European and Afro-Americans. The mestizos comprise 71.9% of the inhabitants, according to the last census of the country, and are predominantly descendants of the mixture of Spanish men and native women, during Spanish colonization. With this work it was […]
