Peopling of South Asia: Investigating the caste-tribe continuum in India

BioEssays

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 91-100

  Chaubey, Gyaneshwer ^a,c   Metspalu, Mait ^a   Kivisild, Toomas ^a,b   Villems, Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

GENETIC DRIFT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOIDY; HUMAN; INDIA; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; REVIEW; SOUTH ASIA; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANIMALS; ASIA; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ETHNIC GROUPS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FEMALE; FOSSILS; HAPLOTYPES; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; INDIA; LANGUAGE; MALE; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 33846609593     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.20525     Document Type: Review

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