Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Reconstructing Indian population history

The authors found great genetic diversity among Indian groups (greater than that observed within Europe). They suggest that this is a result of many founder events followed by limited gene flow. They also found evidence that two populations (one is closely related to Europeans and Central Asians, the other is closest to the Onge of the Andaman Islands) are ancestral to most current Indian populations.

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