Linguistic and archaeological evidence about the origins of the Malagasy, the indigenous
peoples of Madagascar, points to mixed African and Indonesian ancestry. By contrast …

The Malagasy have been shown to be a genetically admixed population combining parental
lineages with African and South East Asian ancestry. In the present paper, we fit the …

More than a decade of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) studies have given the 'Polynesian
motif'renowned status as a marker for tracing the late-Holocene expansion of Austronesian …

Studying the genetic history of the Orang Asli of Peninsular Malaysia can provide crucial
clues to the peopling of Southeast Asia as a whole. We have analyzed mitochondrial DNA …

Background Linguistic, cultural and genetic characteristics of the Malagasy suggest that both
Africans and Island Southeast Asians were involved in the colonization of Madagascar …

Although situated∼ 400 km from the east coast of Africa, Madagascar exhibits cultural,
linguistic, and genetic traits from both Southeast Asia and Eastern Africa. The settlement …

A major unanswered question regarding the dispersal of modern humans around the world
concerns the geographical site of the first human steps outside of Africa. The" southern …

Indonesia, an island nation linking mainland Asia with the Pacific world, hosts a wide range
of linguistic, ethnic and genetic diversity. Despite the complexity of this cultural environment …

Malagasy genetic diversity results from an exceptional protoglobalization process that took
place over a thousand years ago across the Indian Ocean. Previous efforts to locate the …

Mitochondrial sequences were retrieved from museum specimens of the enigmatic
Andaman Islanders to analyze their evolutionary history. D-loop and protein-coding data …