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Afghan Hindu Kush: where Eurasian sub-continent gene flows converge.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2013
Di Cristofaro Julie, Pennarun Erwan, Mazières Stéphane, Myres Natalie M, Lin Alice A, Temori Shah Aga, Metspalu Mait, Metspalu Ene, Witzel Michael, King Roy J, Underhill Peter A, Villems Richard, Chiaroni Jacques
Abstract excerpt
Despite being located at the crossroads of Asia, genetics of the Afghanistan populations have been largely overlooked. It is currently inhabited by five major ethnic populations: Pashtun, Tajik, Hazara, Uzbek and Turkmen. Here we present autosomal from a subset of our samples, mitochondrial and Y- chromosome data from over 500 Afghan samples among these 5 ethnic groups. This Afghan data was supplemented with the...
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