title: Comment on "Reconstructing the origin of Andaman islanders".
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory for Conservation and Utilization of Bio-resource, Yunnan University, Kunming 650091, China.
authors.forename: Malliya Gounder
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Palanichamy
authors.forename: Suraksha
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Agrawal
authors.forename: Yong-Gang
authors.initials: YG
authors.lastname: Yao
authors.forename: Qing-Peng
authors.initials: QP
authors.lastname: Kong
authors.forename: Chang
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.forename: Faisal
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Khan
authors.forename: Tapas Kumar
authors.initials: TK
authors.lastname: Chaudhuri
authors.forename: Ya-Ping
authors.initials: YP
authors.lastname: Zhang
mesh_terms: D000349:Africa; D001208:Asia; D004272:DNA, Mitochondrial / Q000235:genetics*; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D005006:Ethnicity / Q000235:genetics*; D005828:Genetics, Population; D005843:Geography; D006239:Haplotypes; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D009154:Mutation; D010802:Phylogeny
chemical_list: D004272:DNA, Mitochondrial