Maya (Guatemala, Native American) : Present Study

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Figure S1. MDS plot based on pairwise Rst distances between Mayas from Guatemala (present study) and 15 populations of different ancestry (see references below) based on 17 Y-STRs.

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Maya (Guatemala, Native American): present study.

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