Negligible male gene flow across ethnic boundaries in India, revealed by analysis of Y-chromosomal DNA polymorphisms

Genome Research

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 711-719

  Bhattacharyya, Nitai Pada ^a   Basu, Priyadarshi ^a   Das, Madhusudan ^b   Pramanik, Srimanta ^a   Banerjee, Rajat ^b   Roy, Bidyut ^c   Roychoudhury, Susanta ^b   Majumder, Partha P ^c  

^a SAHA INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL BIOLOGY   (India)

^c INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ALLELE; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME MARKER; DNA POLYMORPHISM; ETHNIC GROUP; GENE LOCUS; GENE TRANSFER; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; INDIA; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; Y CHROMOSOME;

DNA; ETHNIC GROUPS; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETICS, POPULATION; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 0032830027     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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