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The Austroasiatic Munda population from India and Its enigmatic origin: a HLA diversity study.
Human biology - 1 Jun 2011
Riccio Maria Eugenia, Nunes José Manuel, Rahal Melissa, Kervaire Barbara, Tiercy Jean-Marie, Sanchez-Mazas Alicia
Abstract excerpt
The Austroasiatic linguistic family disputes its origin between two geographically distant regions of Asia, India, and Southeast Asia, respectively. As genetic studies based on classical and gender-specific genetic markers provided contradictory results to this debate thus far, we investigated the HLA diversity (HLA-A, -B, and -DRB1 loci) of an Austroasiatic Munda population from Northeast India and its...
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