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36. Supported by United Productions and the Discovery
Channel, the British Academy, the Royal Society,
the University of Huddersfield, the Wellcome Trust,
the Italian Ministry of the University (Progetti Ricerca
Interesse Nazionale 2003), Progetto CNR-MIUR Genomica
Funzionale-Legge 449/97, Grandi Progetti di
Ateneo (Universita` La Sapienza), the Muzium Negara
Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur), and the Universiti Putra
Malaysia. We thank the Malaysian participants for
providing cheek-swab samples and J. Clegg and A. S.
Sofro for Indonesian samples.