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Article: mtDNA variation in caste populations of Andhra Pradesh, India
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- Human Biology
- Article date:
- February 1, 1996
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CopyrightCopyright Wayne State University Press Feb 1996. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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South Asian evolutionary history is notable for successive migrations of many different peoples from Central and East Asia, Africa, and Europe into the Indian subcontinent (Majumdar 1958). Among these groups the rate of gene flow, level of admixture, effective population size, founder events, and frequency of fission varied extensively (Malhotra and Vasulu 1993; Cavalli-Sforza et al. 1994). As a result, contemporary India--with more than 850 million inhabitants (1991 census)--is an agglomeration of thousands of diverse ethnic groups with different religions, languages, social structures, kinship systems, economic structures, and settlement patterns. Attempts to order this variation led to ...