Indian siddis: African descendants with Indian admixture

American Journal of Human Genetics

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 154-161

  Shah, Anish M ^a   Tamang, Rakesh ^a   Moorjani, Priya ^b,c   Rani, Deepa Selvi ^a   Govindaraj, Periyasamy ^a   Kulkarni, Gururaj ^d   Bhattacharya, Tanmoy ^a   Mustak, Mohammed S ^e   Bhaskar, L V K S ^a   Reddy, Alla G ^a   Gadhvi, Dharmendra ^a   Gai, Pramod B ^d   Chaubey, Gyaneshwer ^f   Patterson, Nick ^c   Reich, David ^b,c   Tyler Smith, Chris ^g   Singh, Lalji ^a,h   Thangaraj, Kumarasamy ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (India)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c BROAD INSTITUTE OF MIT AND HARVARD   (United States)

^d KARNATAK UNIVERSITY   (India)

^e MANGALORE UNIVERSITY   (India)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^g WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^h Genome Foundation   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL INHERITANCE; CAUCASIAN; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INDIAN; INDIAN SIDDIS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; Y CHROMOSOMAL INHERITANCE;

EID: 80051548755     PISSN: 00029297     EISSN: 15376605     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2011.05.030     Document Type: Article

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