Austro-Asiatic tribes of Northeast India provide hitherto missing genetic link between South and Southeast Asia

PLoS ONE

Volumn 2, Issue 11, 2007, Pages

  Reddy, B Mohan ^a   Langstieh, B T ^a,b   Kumar, Vikrant ^a,c   Nagaraja, T ^a   Reddy, A N S ^a   Meka, Aruna ^a   Reddy, A G ^d   Thangaraj, K ^d   Singh, Laiji ^d  

^a INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

^b NORTH EASTERN HILL UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c GENOME INSTITUTE OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d CENTRE FOR CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; FEMALE; GENETIC LINKAGE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INDIA; MALE; POPULATION GENETICS; POPULATION MOVEMENT PATTERN; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SOUTH ASIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; Y CHROMOSOME; ASIA; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE;

ASIA; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EVOLUTION; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; INDIA;

EID: 42649098258     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0001141     Document Type: Article

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