| peopling of sahul: mtdna variation in aboriginal australian and papua new guinean populations. | we examined genetic affinities of aboriginal australian and new guinean populations by using nucleotide variation in the two hypervariable segments of the mtdna control region (cr). a total of 318 individuals from highland papua new guinea (png), coastal png, and aboriginal australian populations were typed with a panel of 29 sequence-specific oligonucleotide (sso) probes. the sso-probe panel included five new probes that were used to type an additional 1,037 individuals from several asian popul ... | 1999 | 10441589 |