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Diversity and divergence among the tribal populations of India.
Annals of human genetics - 1 Nov 2005
Watkins W S, Prasad B V R, Naidu J M, Rao B B, Bhanu B A, Ramachandran B, Das P K, Gai P B, Reddy P C, Reddy P G, Sethuraman M, Bamshad M J, Jorde L B
Abstract excerpt
Tribal populations of the Indian subcontinent have been of longstanding interest to anthropologists and human geneticists. To investigate the relationship of Indian tribes to Indian castes and continental populations, we analyzed 45 unlinked autosomal STR loci in 9 tribal groups, 8 castes, and 18 populations from Africa, Europe and East Asia. South Indian tribal populations demonstrate low within-population...
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