| the peopling of madeira archipelago (portugal) according to hla genes. | the madeira-porto santo archipelago was officially colonized in 1420 by portuguese settlers. its importance in columbus' information for the american discovery and for slave traffic across the atlantic is unquestionable. thus, a complex peopling may have given rise to a present-day high admixture of ethnicities according to hla genes. a sample of 173 healthy unrelated madeirans was analysed and compared with 6986 hla chromosomes from other worldwide populations. genetic distances, neighbour-join ... | 2009 | 19055604 |