The Phylogeography of Y-Chromosome Haplogroup H1a1a-M82 Reveals the Likely Indian Origin of the European Romani Populations

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2012, Pages

  Rai, Niraj ^a   Chaubey, Gyaneshwer ^b   Tamang, Rakesh ^a   Pathak, Ajai Kumar ^c   Singh, Vipin Kumar ^a   Karmin, Monika ^b,c   Singh, Manvendra ^a   Rani, Deepa Selvi ^a   Anugula, Sharath ^a   Yadav, Brijesh Kumar ^a   Singh, Ashish ^a   Srinivasagan, Ramkumar ^a   Yadav, Anita ^a   Kashyap, Manju ^a   Narvariya, Sapna ^a   Reddy, Alla G ^a   van Driem, George ^d   Underhill, Peter A ^e   Villems, Richard ^b,c,f   Kivisild, Toomas ^c,g   Singh, Lalji ^a,h,i   Thangaraj, Kumarasamy ^a   more..

^a CENTRE FOR CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f ESTONIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Estonia)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^h Genome Foundation   (India)

ⁱ BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CHROMOSOME ANALYSIS; CHROMOSOME MARKER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; HAPLOIDY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDIAN; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; PLESIOMORPHY; POPULATION GENETIC STRUCTURE; ROMANIA; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT; Y CHROMOSOME;

ASIA; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPE; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; PHYLOGENY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY;

EID: 84870338401     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0048477     Document Type: Article

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