| strains of jc virus in amerind-speakers of north america (salish) and south america (guaraní), na-dene-speakers of new mexico (navajo), and modern japanese suggest links through an ancestral asian population. | previously we showed that strains of human polyoma virus jc among the navajo in new mexico, speakers of an athapaskan language in the na-dene language phylum, and among the salish people in montana, speakers of a language of the salishan group in the amerind family, were mainly of a northeast asian genotype found in japan (type 2a). we now report partial vp1-gene, regulatory region, and complete genome sequences of jc virus (jcv) from the guaraní indians of argentina. the tupí-guaraní language r ... | 2002 | 12012368 |