Austro-Asiatic tribes of Northeast India provide hitherto missing genetic link between South and Southeast Asia.

Northeast India, the only region which currently forms a land bridge between the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia, has been proposed as an important corridor for the initial peopling of East Asia. Given that the Austro-Asiatic linguistic family is considered to be the oldest and spoken by cert...

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Main Authors: B Mohan Reddy, B T Langstieh, Vikrant Kumar, T Nagaraja, A N S Reddy, Aruna Meka, A G Reddy, K Thangaraj, Lalji Singh
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2007-11-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0001141