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The genetic identity of the Vedda: A language isolate of South Asia.
Mitochondrion - 1 May 2024
Welikala Anjana, Desai Shailesh, Pratap Singh Prajjval, Fernando Amali, Thangaraj Kumarasamy, van Driem George, Adikari Gamini, Tennekoon Kamani, Chaubey Gyaneshwer, Ranasinghe Ruwandi
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Linguistic data from South Asia identified several language isolates in the subcontinent. The Vedda, an indigenous population of Sri Lanka, are the least studied amongst them. Therefore, to understand the initial peopling of Sri Lanka and the genetic affinity of the Vedda with other populations in Eurasia, we extensively studied the high-resolution autosomal and mitogenomes from the Vedda population of Sri Lanka....
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