Comment on "Reconstructing the origin of Andaman islanders".
On the basis of mitochondrial DNA sequence analyses, Thangaraj et al. (Brevia, 13 May 2005, p. 996) proposed that Andaman islanders descended from the first humans to migrate out of Africa. We identified mitochondrial DNA from two northeast Indian Rajbanshi individuals that shares three specific mutations with the M31a lineage observed in the Great Andamanese, which suggests that the predecessor of haplogroup M31 originated on the Indian subcontinent.
Palanichamy
Malliya Gounder
MG
Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Bio-resource, Yunnan University, Kunming 650091, China.
Agrawal
Suraksha
S
Yao
Yong-Gang
YG
Kong
Qing-Peng
QP
Sun
Chang
C
Khan
Faisal
F
Chaudhuri
Tapas Kumar
TK
Zhang
Ya-Ping
YP
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