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Ladakh, India: the land of high passes and genetic heterogeneity reveals a confluence of migrations.
European journal of human genetics : EJHG - 1 Mar 2016
Rowold Diane J, Perez Benedico David, Garcia-Bertrand Ralph, Chennakrishnaiah Shilpa, Alfonso-Sanchez Miguel A, Gayden Tenzin, Herrera Rene J
Abstract excerpt
Owing to its geographic location near the longitudinal center of Asia, Ladakh, the land of high passes, has witnessed numerous demographic movements during the past millenniums of occupation. In an effort to view Ladakh's multicultural history from a paternal genetic perspective, we performed a high-resolution Y-chromosomal survey of Ladakh, within the context of Y haplogroup and haplotype distributions of 41...
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