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Genetic characterization of four Austronesian-speaking populations.
Journal of human genetics - 1 Jan 2005
Chow Rachel A, Caeiro Jose L, Chen Shu-Juo, Garcia-Bertrand Ralph L, Herrera Rene J
Abstract excerpt
Ascertaining the genetic relationships between Austronesian populations is paramount to understanding their dispersal throughout the islands of the Pacific and Indian Oceans. The start of the Austronesian expansion has been dated to approximately 6,000 years ago, and from linguistic and archeological evidence, the origin of this dispersal may have been the island of Formosa. Consequently, the Taiwanese aboriginal...
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