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Hi-C: A Method to Study the Three-dimensional Architecture of Genomes.
Published on: May 6, 2010
Genetic affinity among five different population groups in India reflecting a Y-chromosome gene flow
Anjana Saha1, Swarkar Sharma1, Audesh Bhat1
1National Centre of Applied Human Genetics, School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, 110067, India.
Abstract:
Four binary polymorphisms and four multiallelic short tandem repeat (STR) loci from the nonrecombining region of the human Y-chromosome were typed in different Indian population groups from Uttar Pradeh (UP), Bihar (BI), Punjab (PUNJ), and Bengal (WB) speaking the Indo-Aryan dialects and from South India (SI) with the root in the Dravidian language. We identified four major haplogroups [(P) 1+, (C and F) 2+, (R1a) 3, (K) 26+] and 114 combinations of Y-STR haplotypes. Analyses of the haplogroups indicated no single origin from any lineage but a result of a conglomeration of different lineages from time to time. The phylogenetic analyses indicate a high degree of population admixture and a greater genetic proximity for the studied population groups when compared with other world populations.
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