Origins of the Moken Sea Gypsies inferred from mitochondrial hypervariable region and whole genome sequences

Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 86-93

  Dancause, Kelsey Needham ^a   Chan, Chim W ^a   Arunotai, Narumon Hinshiranan ^b   Lum, J Koji ^a  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Anthropology; Mitochondrial DNA; Moken; Phylogeography; Southeast Asia

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ABORIGINE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DNA EXTRACTION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC DRIFT; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; MITOCHONDRION; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION SIZE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENEALOGY; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN GENOME; MITOCHONDRIAL GENOME; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ROMANI (PEOPLE); SEA; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

ASIA, SOUTHEASTERN; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENEALOGY AND HERALDRY; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOME, MITOCHONDRIAL; GEOGRAPHY; GYPSIES; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OCEANS AND SEAS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 60749093138     PISSN: 14345161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/jhg.2008.12     Document Type: Article

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