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Genetic affinities among the lower castes and tribal groups of India: inference from Y chromosome and mitochondrial DNA

Ismail Thanseem1 email, Kumarasamy Thangaraj1 email, Gyaneshwer Chaubey1,2 email, Vijay Kumar Singh1 email, Lakkakula VKS Bhaskar1 email, B Mohan Reddy3 email, Alla G Reddy1 email and Lalji Singh1 email

Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Uppal Road, Hyderabad- 500 007, India

Estonian Biocentre, Riia, 23, Tartu- 51010, Estonia

Biological Anthropology Unit, Indian Statistical Research Institute, Habsiguda, Hyderabad, India

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BMC Genetics 2006, 7:42doi:10.1186/1471-2156-7-42

Published: 7 August 2006

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Additional File 1:

Indian Y-SNP data. Y-chromosome biallelic polymorphism data of 1285 Indian samples are given. The Y-SNP and Y-STR haplotypes of the three populations analyzed are also provided.

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Additional File 2:

Mitochondrial DNA mutation data. The data provided represent the mtDNA mutations at the HVR I region and selected coding regions from 347 tribal samples. Different haplogroups and its frequency are also given.

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