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Y-chromosome evidence suggests a common paternal heritage of Austro-Asiatic populations.
BMC evolutionary biology - 28 Mar 2007
Kumar Vikrant, Reddy Arimanda N S, Babu Jagedeesh P, Rao Tipirisetti N, Langstieh Banrida T, Thangaraj Kumarasamy, Reddy Alla G, Singh Lalji, Reddy Battini M
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BACKGROUND: The Austro-Asiatic linguistic family, which is considered to be the oldest of all the families in India, has a substantial presence in Southeast Asia. However, the possibility of any genetic link among the linguistic sub-families of the Indian Austro-Asiatics on the one hand and between the Indian and the Southeast Asian Austro-Asiatics on the other has not been explored till now. Therefore, to trace...
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