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In situ origin of deep rooting lineages of mitochondrial Macrohaplogroup 'M' in India.
BMC genomics - 15 Jun 2006
Thangaraj Kumarasamy, Chaubey Gyaneshwer, Singh Vijay Kumar, Vanniarajan Ayyasamy, Thanseem Ismail, Reddy Alla G, Singh Lalji
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: Macrohaplogroups 'M' and 'N' have evolved almost in parallel from a founder haplogroup L3. Macrohaplogroup N in India has already been defined in previous studies and recently the macrohaplogroup M among the Indian populations has been characterized. In this study, we attempted to reconstruct and re-evaluate the phylogeny of Macrohaplogroup M, which harbors more than 60% of the Indian mtDNA lineage,...
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