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Heterogeneity of Taiwan's indigenous population: possible relation to prehistoric Mongoloid dispersals.
Tissue antigens - 1 Jan 2000
Lin M, Chu C C, Lee H L, Chang S L, Ohashi J, Tokunaga K, Akaza T, Juji T
Abstract excerpt
Taiwan's 9 indigenous tribes (Tsou, Bunun, Paiwan, Rukai, Atayal, Saisiat, Ami, Puyuma, Yami) are highly homogeneous within each tribe, but diversified among the different tribes due to long-term isolation, most probably since Taiwan became an island about 12,000 years ago. Homogeneity of each tribe is evidenced by many HLA-A,B,C alleles having the world's highest ever reported frequencies, e.g. A24 (86.3%), A26...
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