Publication Date:
2006-01-28
Description:
On the basis of mitochondrial DNA sequence analyses, Thangaraj et al. (Brevia, 13 May 2005, p. 996) proposed that Andaman islanders descended from the first humans to migrate out of Africa. We identified mitochondrial DNA from two northeast Indian Rajbanshi individuals that shares three specific mutations with the M31a lineage observed in the Great Andamanese, which suggests that the predecessor of haplogroup M31 originated on the Indian subcontinent.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Palanichamy, Malliya Gounder -- Agrawal, Suraksha -- Yao, Yong-Gang -- Kong, Qing-Peng -- Sun, Chang -- Khan, Faisal -- Chaudhuri, Tapas Kumar -- Zhang, Ya-Ping -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2006 Jan 27;311(5760):470; author reply 470.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Bio-resource, Yunnan University, Kunming 650091, China.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16439647" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Africa
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Asia
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DNA, Mitochondrial/*genetics
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Emigration and Immigration
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Ethnic Groups/*genetics
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Genetics, Population
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Geography
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*Haplotypes
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Humans
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India
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Mutation
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Phylogeny
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
