The influence of natural barriers in shaping the genetic structure of Maharashtra populations

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2010, Pages

  Thangaraj, Kumarasamy ^a   Prathap Naidu, B ^a   Crivellaro, Federica ^b   Tamang, Rakesh ^a   Upadhyay, Shashank ^a   Sharma, Varun Kumar ^a   Reddy, Alla G ^a   Walimbe, S R ^c   Chaubey, Gyaneshwer ^a,d   Kivisild, Toomas ^b,d   Singh, Lalji ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c Deccan College Post Graduate and Research Institute Pune   (India)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DNA DETERMINATION; GENE POOL; GENETIC DISTANCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; INDIA; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PALEOLITHIC; POPULATION GENETIC STRUCTURE; POPULATION MIGRATION; TOPOGRAPHY; Y CHROMOSOME; ALGORITHM; ASIA; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ETHNIC GROUP; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETICS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ALGORITHMS; ASIA; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ETHNIC GROUPS; GENETICS, POPULATION; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; INDIA; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHYLOGENY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 78650864422     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0015283     Document Type: Article

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