Insight into the peopling of Mainland Southeast Asia from Thai population genetic structure.

ABSTRACT: There is considerable ethno-linguistic and genetic variation among human populations in Asia, although tracing the origins of this diversity is complicated by migration events. Thailand is at the center of Mainland Southeast Asia (MSEA), a region within Asia that has not been extensively studied. Genetic substructure may exist in the Thai population, since waves of migration from southern China throughout its recent history may have contributed to substantial gene flow. Autosomal SNP data were collated for 438,503 markers from 992 Thai individuals. Using the available self-reported regional origin, four Thai subpopulations genetically distinct from each other and from other Asian populations were resolved by Neighbor-Joining analysis using a 41,569 marker subset. Using an independent Princ

SUBMITTER: Wangkumhang P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3817124 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature