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Asian and non-Asian origins of Mon-Khmer- and Mundari-speaking Austro-Asiatic populations of India.
American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council - 1 Jan 2000
Kumar Vikrant, Langsiteh Banrida T, Biswas Silpak, Babu J Pradeep, Rao T Nageswara, Thangaraj K, Reddy A G, Singh L, Reddy B Mohan
Abstract excerpt
In the present study, we analyzed 1,686 samples from 31 tribal populations of India for the mitochondrial DNA 9-base-pair deletion/insertion polymorphism, and characterized them based on the relevant mitochondrial DNA coding-region single nucleotide polymorphisms and hypervariable region I motifs, to test the genetic origins of the ethnically and linguistically heterogeneous Austro-Asiatic tribes of India. A...
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