Genetic affinities of the siddis of South India: An emigrant population of East Africa

Human Biology

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 251-270

  Gauniyal, Mansi ^a   Chahal, S M S ^b   Kshatriya, Gautam K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELHI   (India)

^b PUNJABI UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Africans; ALU insertion deletion; Average heterozygosity; Genetic admixture; Genetic distance; Nonrandom association; Red blood cell markers; Serological markers; Siddis; South India

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICA; ALLELE; ALU SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; EUROPE; GENE DELETION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE INSERTION; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HETEROZYGOSITY; HUMAN; HYBRID; INDEL MUTATION; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MIGRATION; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; POPULATION GENETICS; PORTUGAL; SEROLOGY; ETHNIC GROUP; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; STATISTICS;

ALLELES; ALU ELEMENTS; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; ETHNIC GROUPS; GENE DELETION; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; INDIA; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC;

EID: 59449095493     PISSN: 00187143     EISSN: 15346617     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3378/1534-6617-80.3.251     Document Type: Article

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