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Genomic and linguistic affinities: a study of allelic and haplotype diversity at DRD2 locus among the tribes of Gujarat, western India.
Genetic testing and molecular biomarkers - 1 Apr 2010
Kshatriya Gautam K, Aggarwal Aastha, Khurana Priyanka, Singh Huidrom S, Italia Yazdi M, Saraswathy Kallur N, Ghosh Pradeep K
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Do genetic and linguistic affinities necessarily go hand in hand? An attempt has been made in the present work to explore this dimension of population structure using three evolutionarily important TaqI sites (TaqI A, TaqI B, and TaqI D) on the dopamine receptor D2 (DRD2) locus. For the first time, DNA samples from 612 unrelated individuals belonging to 11 Indo-European-speaking tribal population groups of...
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