Genetic affinities of the central Indian tribal populations

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Sharma, Gunjan ^a   Tamang, Rakesh ^b   Chaudhary, Ruchira ^a   Singh, Vipin Kumar ^b   Shah, Anish M ^b   Anugula, Sharath ^b   Rani, Deepa Selvi ^b   Reddy, Alla G ^b   Eaaswarkhanth, Muthukrishnan ^b,f   Chaubey, Gyaneshwer ^c   Singh, Lalji ^b,d,e   Thangaraj, Kumarasamy ^b  

^a Government Motilal Vigyan Mahavidyalaya   (India)

^b CENTRE FOR CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^d Genome Foundation   (India)

^e BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

^f DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; AUTOSOMAL INHERITANCE; CHROMOSOME IDENTIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIPLOIDY; DNA DETERMINATION; EVOLUTIONARY HOMOLOGY; GENE FLOW; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOIDY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; INDIAN; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POPULATION SIZE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; Y CHROMOSOME; ALLELE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHY; INDIA; LANGUAGE; MALE; PHYLOGENY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

ALLELES; DIPLOIDY; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOIDY; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; INDIA; LANGUAGE; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; PHYLOGENY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 84857675985     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0032546     Document Type: Article

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