Genetic evidence of a recent Tibetan ancestry to Sherpas in the Himalayan region

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Bhandari, Sushil ^a,d   Zhang, Xiaoming ^a   Cui, Chaoying ^b   Bianba, ^b   Liao, Shiyu ^a   Peng, Yi ^a   Zhang, Hui ^a   Xiang, Kun ^a   Shi, Hong ^a,e   Ouzhuluobu, ^b   Baimakongzhuo, ^b   Gonggalanzi, ^b   Liu, Shimin ^c   Gengdeng, ^c   Wu, Tianyi ^c   Qi, Xuebin ^a   Su, Bing ^a  

^a KUNMING INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

^b TIBET UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c National Key Laboratory of High Altitude Medicine   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^e KUNMING UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ADAPTATION; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ETHNIC GROUP; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; MITOCHONDRION; NEPAL; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETICS; PROCEDURES; TIBET; Y CHROMOSOME;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ETHNIC GROUPS; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; MITOCHONDRIA; NEPAL; PHYLOGENY; TIBET;

EID: 84946606375     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep16249     Document Type: Article

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