LETTER – DISCOVERIES Mitogenome Diversity in Sardinians: a Genetic Window onto an Island's Past
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Anna Olivieri,† Carlo Sidore,† Alessandro Achilli,† Andrea Angius, Cosimo Posth, Anja Furtwängler, Stefania Brandini, Marco Rosario Capodiferro, Francesca Gandini, Magdalena Zoledziewska, Maristella Pitzalis, Andrea Maschio, Fabio Busonero, Luca Lai, Robin Skeates, Maria Giuseppina Gradoli, Jessica Beckett, Michele Marongiu, Vittorio Mazzarello, Patrizia Marongiu, Salvatore Rubino, Teresa Rito, Vincent Macaulay, Ornella Semino, Maria Pala, Gonçalo R. Abecasis, David Schlessinger, Eduardo Conde-Sousa, Pedro Soares, Martin B. Richards, Francesco Cucca, and Antonio Torroni
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