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Polarity and temporality of high-resolution y-chromosome distributions in India identify both indigenous and exogenous expansions and reveal minor genetic influence of Central Asian pastoralists.
American journal of human genetics - 1 Feb 2006
Sengupta Sanghamitra, Zhivotovsky Lev A, King Roy, Mehdi S Q, Edmonds Christopher A, Chow Cheryl-Emiliane T, Lin Alice A, Mitra Mitashree, Sil Samir K, Ramesh A, Usha Rani M V, Thakur Chitra M, Cavalli-Sforza L Luca, Majumder Partha P, Underhill Peter A
Abstract excerpt
Although considerable cultural impact on social hierarchy and language in South Asia is attributable to the arrival of nomadic Central Asian pastoralists, genetic data (mitochondrial and Y chromosomal) have yielded dramatically conflicting inferences on the genetic origins of tribes and castes of South Asia. We sought to resolve this conflict, using high-resolution data on 69 informative Y-chromosome binary...
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