Pode a genética definir quem deve se beneficiar das cotas universitárias e demais ações afirmativas?
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IN THIS ARTICLE we used tools of molecular and population genetics to estimate quantitatively the African contribution for the formation of the Brazilian population. We examined two genomic compartments: mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), maternally inherited, and nuclear DNA, inherited from both parents. The studies using mtDNA showed that about 30% of Brazilians self-classified as White and 80% of Brazilian Negroes carry maternal lineages typical of Sub-Saharan Africa. Using these data we could estimate that at least 89 million Brazilians are afrodescendants, a number considerably larger than the 76 million individuals self-classified as Negro in the 2000 census. The analyses on nuclear polymorphisms employed "ancestry informative" markers and showed even more striking results. On the basis of studies in individuals self-classified as White from several Brazilian regions, we estimated that approximately 146 million Brazilians (86% of the population) had more than 10% African contribution to their genome. These numbers should be taken into account in discussing affirmative action programs in Brazil, but in a descriptive rather than a prescriptive sense.Downloads
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2004-04-01
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Pena, S. D., & Bortolini, M. C. (2004). Pode a genética definir quem deve se beneficiar das cotas universitárias e demais ações afirmativas? . Estudos Avançados, 18(50), 31-50. https://www.journals.usp.br/eav/article/view/9967