Searching for the origin of Romanies: Slovakian Romani, Jats of Haryana and Jat Sikhs Y-STR data in comparison with different Romani populations

Forensic Science International

Volumn 169, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 19-26

  Nagy, Melinda ^a   Henke, Lotte ^c   Henke, Jürgen ^c   Chatthopadhyay, Prasanta K ^d   Völgyi, Antónia ^b   Zalán, Andrea ^b   Peterman, Orsolya ^b   Bernasovská, Jarmila ^e   Pamjav, Horolma ^b  

^a J SELYE UNIVERSITY   (Slovakia)

^b Institute of Forensic Medicine   (Hungary)

^c Institut für Blutgruppenforschnung   (Germany)

^d AMITY UNIVERSITY   (India)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PRE OV   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

AMOVA; Jats of Haryana and Jat Sikhs; Population genetics; Romanies (Gypsy); Y STR haplotypes

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; ETHNICITY; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDIA; MALE; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLOVAKIA;

EID: 34248159045     PISSN: 03790738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2006.07.020     Document Type: Article

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