Traces of sub-saharan and middle eastern lineages in Indian muslim populations

European Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 354-363

  Eaaswarkhanth, Muthukrishnan ^a,b   Haque, Ikramul ^a   Ravesh, Zeinab ^b   Romero, Irene Gallego ^c   Meganathan, Poorlin Ramakodi ^a   Dubey, Bhawna ^a   Khan, Faizan Ahmed ^d   Chaubey, Gyaneshwer ^e   Kivisild, Toomas ^c,e   Tyler Smith, Chris ^f   Singh, Lalji ^b   Thangaraj, Kumarasamy ^b  

^a CENTRAL FORENSIC SCIENCE LABORATORY   (India)

^b CENTRE FOR CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d State Forensic Science Laboratory   (India)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^f WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gene flow; Indian Muslims; Middle East; MtDNA; Sub Saharan; Y chromosome

Indexed keywords

LACTASE; MINICHROMOSOME MAINTENANCE PROTEIN 6; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; ASIAN; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; GENE FLOW; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHY; INDIA; MOSLEM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; Y CHROMOSOME;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE POOL; GENETIC LOCI; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; INDIA; IRAN; ISLAM; MIDDLE EAST; PHYLOGENY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 77149175100     PISSN: 10184813     EISSN: 14765438     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ejhg.2009.168     Document Type: Article

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