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<journal-id>0370-3908</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Revista de la Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Rev. acad. colomb. cienc. exact. fis. nat.]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>0370-3908</issn>
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<publisher-name><![CDATA[Academia Colombiana de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales]]></publisher-name>
</publisher>
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<article-id>S0370-39082019000400607</article-id>
<article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.18257/raccefyn.869</article-id>
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<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[Evidencia de mutaciones genéticas asociadas con el albinismo en amerindios]]></article-title>
<article-title xml:lang="en"><![CDATA[Evidence of genetic mutations associated with albinism in Amerindians]]></article-title>
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<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Bernal Villegas]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Jaime Eduardo]]></given-names>
</name>
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<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,Universidad del Sinú Facultad de Medicina ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[Cartagena de Indias ]]></addr-line>
<country>Colombia</country>
</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>12</month>
<year>2019</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>12</month>
<year>2019</year>
</pub-date>
<volume>43</volume>
<numero>169</numero>
<fpage>607</fpage>
<lpage>613</lpage>
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<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S0370-39082019000400607&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S0370-39082019000400607&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S0370-39082019000400607&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[Resumen Se revisan diversas descripciones históricas del albinismo entre los indígenas americanos para evidenciar cómo este error congénito del metabolismo ya se encontraba en América cuando los primeros conquistadores llegaron al continente, lo cual sugiere que por lo menos una de las mutaciones genéticas asociadas con el albinismo pudo haber llegado en el genoma de los primeros humanos que pasaron por el estrecho de Bering.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Abstract Diverse historical descriptions of albinism among Amerindians are reviewed showing that this inborn error of metabolism was already present in America when the first conquistadores arrived in this continent, which suggests that at least one of the genetic mutations associated with albinism may have come in the genome of the first human migrants across the Bering Strait.]]></p></abstract>
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