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Comment on "Reconstructing the origin of Andaman islanders".
Science (New York, N.Y.) - 27 Jan 2006
Palanichamy Malliya Gounder, Agrawal Suraksha, Yao Yong-Gang, Kong Qing-Peng, Sun Chang, Khan Faisal, Chaudhuri Tapas Kumar, Zhang Ya-Ping
Abstract excerpt
On the basis of mitochondrial DNA sequence analyses, Thangaraj et al. (Brevia, 13 May 2005, p. 996) proposed that Andaman islanders descended from the first humans to migrate out of Africa. We identified mitochondrial DNA from two northeast Indian Rajbanshi individuals that shares three specific mutations with the M31a lineage observed in the Great Andamanese, which suggests that the predecessor of haplogroup M31...
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