Southeast Asian origins of five Hill Tribe populations and correlation of genetic to linguistic relationships inferred with genome-wide SNP data

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 144, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 300-308

  Listman, J B ^a   Malison, R T ^a,b   Sanichwankul, K ^c   Ittiwut, C ^d   Mutirangura, A ^d   Gelernter, J ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VA CONNECTICUT HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^c Suan prung Psychiatric Hospital   (Thailand)

^d CHULALONGKORN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

admixture; genomics; substructure; Thailand

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHINA; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CORRELATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MIGRATION; POPULATION GENETICS; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SOUTHEAST ASIA; THAILAND;

ASIA, SOUTHEASTERN; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BAYES THEOREM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE;

EID: 78651503280     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.21408     Document Type: Article

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