objective(s):from the ancient era, emergence of agriculture in the connecting region of mesopotamia and the iranian plateau at the foothills of the zagros mountains, made iranian gene pool as an important source of populating the region. it has differentiated the population spread and different language groups. in order to trace the maternal genetic affinity between iranians and other populatio...

It has been -10 years since the idea of determining the complete nucleotide sequence of the human genome was first proposed as a "big-science" project to the scientific community at the 1986 meeting at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory on the molecular biology of Homo sapiens (Bodmer 1986). The ensuing decade has seen the realization of this goal as a worthy endeavor, and an enormous amount of prog...

Molecular Anthropology is a relatively young field of research. In fact, less than 50 years have passed since the symposium "Classification and Human Evolution" (1962, Burg Wartenstein, Austria), where the term was formally introduced by Emil Zuckerkandl. In this time, Molecular Anthropology has developed both methodologically and theoretically and extended its applications, so covering key asp...

Banrida T. Langstieh, Vikrant Kumar, Meka Aruna, Alla Govardhan Reddy, Shilpi Dasgupta, Alla Nirmala, Kumarasamy Thangaraj, Lalji Singh, Battini Mohan Reddy Molecular Anthropology Group, Indian Statistical Institute, Hyderabad, India Department of Anthropology, North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong, India Human Genetics Group, Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore City, Singapore Centre fo...

1EnviroSPACE laboratory, Climate Change and Climate Impacts, Institute for Environmental Sciences, University of Geneva, Switzerland. 2Laboratory of anthropology, genetics and peopling history, Department of Anthropology, University of Geneva, Switzerland. 3Computational and Molecular Population Genetics Lab, Institute of Ecology and Evolution, University of Berne, Switzerland 4Swiss Institute ...

■ Abstract A number of important insights into the peopling of the New World have been gained through molecular genetic studies of Siberian and Native American populations. These data indicate that the initial migration of ancestral Amerindian originated in south-central Siberia and entered the New World between 20,000–14,000 calendar years before present (cal yr BP). These early immigrants pro...

Molecular anthropology the study of human genetic polymorphisms is fast and ever-growing branch of anthropology that holds a great promise for both past and future. Indian subcontinent with its remarkable environmental, geographical, morphological, genetic, cultural and linguistic diversity provides immense promise for anthropological investigations to address origins of its people, population ...

the invention of polymerase chain reaction (pcr) has been a milestone in the history of biological and medical sciences. the applications of pcr have not only completely revolutionised the research in the field of molecular genetics as well as animal and plant biotechnology, but the technique has also proved its relevance and ingenious utility in other fields of forensic sciences, molecular sys...