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Genetic structures of the Tibetans and the Deng people in the Himalayas viewed from autosomal STRs.
Journal of human genetics - 1 May 2010
Kang Longli, Li Shilin, Gupta Sameer, Zhang Yingang, Liu Kai, Zhao Jianmin, Jin Li, Li Hui
Abstract excerpt
In the previous studies, the populations in Tibet exhibited a complicated genetic structure, indicating that those populations might be the admixture of East Asian and South/Central Asian populations, or have a North Asian origin. However, there have not been sufficient genetic data to support this hypothesis. In this study, we analyzed 15 autosomal polymorphic tetranucleotide short tandem repeat loci (D5S818,...
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