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Tracing India's invisible threads

One measure of the extraordinary level of human diversity found in India is the use of 15 languages on its banknotes. The genetic underpinnings of that population diversity are yielding to whole-genome analysis.

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Chakravarti, A. Tracing India's invisible threads. Nature 461, 487–488 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/461487a

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