Article
Genetic evidence for the proto-Austronesian homeland in Asia: mtDNA and nuclear DNA variation in Taiwanese aboriginal tribes.
American journal of human genetics - 1 Dec 1998
Melton T, Clifford S, Martinson J, Batzer M, Stoneking M
Abstract excerpt
Previous studies of mtDNA variation in indigenous Taiwanese populations have suggested that they held an ancestral position in the spread of mtDNAs throughout Southeast Asia and Oceania (Melton et al. 1995; Sykes et al. 1995), but the question of an absolute proto-Austronesian homeland remains. T...
Topics
- Alleles
- Alu Elements
- Asia
- Asian People
- Cell Nucleus
- DNA
- DNA, Mitochondrial
- Europe
- Gene Frequency
- Genetic Variation
- Heteroduplex Analysis
- Heterozygote
- Humans
- Locus Control Region
- Pacific Islands
- Phylogeny
- Polymorphism, Genetic
- Sequence Analysis, DNA