 COM.on C.A.1:e5/28-41 Online published on May 27, 2007.
FOCUSAustro-Asiatic Populations originated in Mundari Tribes of India LAN Hai Linguistic Forum of China, Suzhou 215000 China
Editor’s Summary: The Austro-Asiatic speaking ethnic group mostly distributes in the Indo-China Peninsular in Southeast Asia and India, and may be the oldest group of the Mongoloid groups, therefore, plays a most important role in the studies on the origin of East Asian. The physical characters of the Austro-Asiatic group are quite various, and the genetic structure is relatively complicated. The diversity of the major Y-chromosome haplogroup of Austro-Asiatic group, O-M95, was analyzed. The result showed that the variance of the Mundari tribes in India, a subfamily of Austro-Asiatic, is much larger than that of another subfamily, Mon-Khmer in Southeast Asia. Therefore, Austro-Asiatic group might have originated from India. However, the sample size of Mon-Khmer populations in this study is rather small, which might have caused a certain misapprehension. (LI Hui, Department of Genetics, Yale University)
Key words: Austro-Asiatic; Mundari tribes; Y chromosome; Origin of Southeast Asian population
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