Genetic affinities among the lower castes and tribal groups of India: Inference from Y chromosome and mitochondrial DNA

BMC Genetics

Volumn 7, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Thanseem, Ismail ^a   Thangaraj, Kumarasamy ^a   Chaubey, Gyaneshwer ^a,b   Kumar Singh, Vijay ^a   Bhaskar, Lakkakula V K S ^a   Reddy, B Mohan ^c   Reddy, Alla G ^a   Singh, Lalji ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^c INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; ASIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEMOGRAPHY; ETHNIC GROUP; EUROPE; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; INDIA; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PLEISTOCENE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION GENETICS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SOCIAL STATUS; Y CHROMOSOME;

CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FEMALE; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 33748847124     PISSN: 14712156     EISSN: 14712156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2156-7-42     Document Type: Article

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