Article
Mitochondrial DNA variation in Nicobarese Islanders.
Human biology - 1 Oct 2001
Prasad B V, Ricker C E, Watkins W S, Dixon M E, Rao B B, Naidu J M, Jorde L B, Bamshad M
Abstract excerpt
The aboriginal populations living in the Nicobar Islands are hypothesized to be descendants of people who were part of early human dispersals into Southeast Asia. However, analyses of ethnographic histories, languages, morphometric data, and protein polymorphisms have not yet resolved which worldwide populations are most closely related to the Nicobarese. Thus, to explore the origins and affinities of the Nicobar...
Topics
- Adult
- Africa
- Asia, Southeastern
- Australia
- Base Pairing
- Base Sequence
- Cambodia
- Complementarity Determining Regions
- DNA, Mitochondrial
- Emigration and Immigration
- Ethnicity