A linguistically informed autosomal STR survey of human populations residing in the greater Himalayan region.

The greater Himalayan region demarcates two of the most prominent linguistic phyla in Asia: Tibeto-Burman and Indo-European. Previous genetic surveys, mainly using Y-chromosome polymorphisms and/or mitochondrial DNA polymorphisms suggested a substantially reduced geneflow between populations belongi...

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Main Authors: Thirsa Kraaijenbrink, Kristiaan J van der Gaag, Sofia B Zuniga, Yali Xue, Denise R Carvalho-Silva, Chris Tyler-Smith, Mark A Jobling, Emma J Parkin, Bing Su, Hong Shi, Chun-Jie Xiao, Wen-Ru Tang, V K Kashyap, R Trivedi, T Sitalaximi, Jheelam Banerjee, Karma Tshering of Gaselô, Nirmal M Tuladhar, Jean-Robert M L Opgenort, George L van Driem, Guido Barbujani, Peter de Knijff
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3948894?pdf=render

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