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Indian Ocean crossroads: human genetic origin and population structure in the Maldives.
American journal of physical anthropology - 1 May 2013
Pijpe Jeroen, de Voogt Alex, van Oven Mannis, Henneman Peter, van der Gaag Kristiaan J, Kayser Manfred, de Knijff Peter
Abstract excerpt
The Maldives are an 850 km-long string of atolls located centrally in the northern Indian Ocean basin. Because of this geographic situation, the present-day Maldivian population has potential for uncovering genetic signatures of historic migration events in the region. We therefore studied autosomal DNA-, mitochondrial DNA-, and Y-chromosomal DNA markers in a representative sample of 141 unrelated Maldivians,...
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