mtDNA haplogroup frequencies in different linguistic populations of South and Southeast Asia.

**This study; 1South Asian Haplogroups (HG) include M*, M2a, M2b, M3, M3a, M4a, M6, M6b, M10, M18, M25, R, R5, R6, R8, U2, U2abc, U3 and U4 ; 2East Asian HGs include A, B, F, M7, M8, M9 MG, MG and their subhaplogroups, N9a, W, X, Y, R9a and R10; 3West Asian HGs include U7, H, J1 and T; 4New M (sub)haplogroups are M33b, M48, M49 and M50, and M31c which are confined in the region of Northeast India and need to be typed in comparative populations for its status.Comparative data are from Fucharoen et al. [39], Oota et al. [40], Prasad et al. [41], Roychoudhury et al. [23], Yao et al. [42]�C[43], Metspalu et al. [25]