Single nucleotide polymorphisms in two genes among the Jarawa, a primitive tribe of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands

  • 24/01/2004

  • Current Science

Discovery and validation of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the human genome is an active area of interest, because of their usefulness in evolutionary and disease-association studies. The researchers have resequenced 70 chromosomes from the Jarawa, a Negrito tribal group inhabiting the Andaman and Nicobar archipelago for a = 10 kb genomic region spanning two genes.