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Unique origin of Andaman Islanders: insight from autosomal loci.
Journal of human genetics - 1 Jan 2006
Thangaraj K, Chaubey G, Reddy A G, Singh V K, Singh L
Abstract excerpt
Our mtDNA and Y chromosome studies lead to the conclusion that the Andamanese "Negrito" mtDNA lineages have survived in the Andaman Islands in complete genetic isolation from other South and Southeast Asian populations since the initial settlement of the region by the out-of-Africa migration. In order to obtain a robust reconstruction of the evolutionary history of the Andamanese, we carried out a study on the...
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