• DOI:10.1007/s12041-008-0026-2
Corpus ID: 32841661

Genetic study of scheduled caste populations of Tamil Nadu

@article{Vijaya2008GeneticSO,
  title={Genetic study of scheduled caste populations of Tamil Nadu},
  author={M. Vijaya and S. Kanthimathi and A. Ramesh},
  journal={Journal of Genetics},
  year={2008},
  volume={87},
  pages={171-174}
}

M. Vijaya, S. Kanthimathi, A. Ramesh

Published 2008

Biology, Medicine

Journal of Genetics

The present study aims to describe the genetic structure ofthe scheduled caste populations in Tamil Nadu state, and toassess their relationships with contemporary people of dif-ferent socio-economic groups of the state. We have stud-ied eight human-specific indels (insertion/deletion polymor-phisms) in DNA samples from five Tamil Nadu caste groupsusing phylogeneticand principal component analysis (PCA),and compared the data with earlier data on the three othercaste groups of the state. The… CONTINUE READING

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