Genetic affinities of the Andaman Islanders, a vanishing human population

Current Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 86-93

  Thangaraj, Kumarasamy ^a   Singh, Lalji ^a   Reddy, Alla G ^a   Rao, V Raghavendra ^b   Sehgal, Subhash C ^c   Underhill, Peter A ^d   Pierson, Melanie ^e   Frame, Ian G ^f   Hagelberg, Erika ^f  

^a CENTRE FOR CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (India)

^b Anthropological Survey of India   (India)

^c Regional Medical Research Centre Port Blair   (India)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^f UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLELES; BASE SEQUENCE; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC;

EID: 0037458112     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-9822(02)01336-2     Document Type: Article

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