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Paternal genetic affinity between Western Austronesians and Daic populations.
BMC evolutionary biology - 15 May 2008
Li Hui, Wen Bo, Chen Shu-Juo, Su Bing, Pramoonjago Patcharin, Liu Yangfan, Pan Shangling, Qin Zhendong, Liu Wenhong, Cheng Xu, Yang Ningning, Li Xin, Tran Dinhbinh, Lu Daru, Hsu Mu-Tsu, Deka Ranjan, Marzuki Sangkot, Tan Chia-Chen, Jin Li
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BACKGROUND: Austronesian is a linguistic family spread in most areas of the Southeast Asia, the Pacific Ocean, and the Indian Ocean. Based on their linguistic similarity, this linguistic family included Malayo-Polynesians and Taiwan aborigines. The linguistic similarity also led to the controversial hypothesis that Taiwan is the homeland of all the Malayo-Polynesians, a hypothesis that has been debated by...
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