Deep rooting In-Situ expansion of mtDNA haplogroup R8 in South Asia

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2009, Pages

  Thangaraj, Kumarasamy ^a   Nandan, Amrita ^a   Sharma, Vishwas ^a   Sharma, Varun Kumar ^a   Eaaswarkhanth, Muthukrishnan ^a   Patra, Pradeep Kumar ^b   Singh, Sandhya ^a   Rekha, Sashi ^a   Dua, Monika ^a   Verma, Narendra ^a   Reddy, Alla G ^a   Singh, Lalji ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (India)

^b PT J N M MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; ASIAN; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SCREENING; ETHNIC GROUP; GENE MAPPING; GENEALOGY; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; INDIAN; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; PALEOLITHIC; PHYLOGENETIC TREE ROOT; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETICS; SOUTH ASIA; GENETICS; INDIA;

DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; INDIA; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 68449104745     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0006545     Document Type: Article

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