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On the origins and admixture of Malagasy: new evidence from high-resolution analyses of paternal and maternal lineages.
Molecular biology and evolution - 1 Sept 2009
Tofanelli Sergio, Bertoncini Stefania, Castrì Loredana, Luiselli Donata, Calafell Francesc, Donati Giuseppe, Paoli Giorgio
Abstract excerpt
The Malagasy have been shown to be a genetically admixed population combining parental lineages with African and South East Asian ancestry. In the present paper, we fit the Malagasy admixture history in a highly resolved phylogeographic framework by typing a large set of mitochondrial DNA and Y DNA markers in unrelated individuals from inland (Merina) and coastal (Antandroy, Antanosy, and Antaisaka) ethnic...
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