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Monday, November 8, 2021

Brahmins from NW india have ~15% frequency of European mtDna - New paper

From:
Gagandeep Singh, Srinivas Yellapu, Harkirat Singh Sandhu, Indu Sharma, Varun Sharma & AJS Bhanwer (2021): Genetic Characterization of the North-West Indian Population: Analysis of Mitochondrial DNA Control Region Variation, Annals of Human Biology, DOI: 10.1080/03014460.2021.1879933


The authors sampled 197 total people of NW India from the Jat Sikh, Bania, Khatri, Brahmin & SC castes. One of the main findings is below.

North-West Indian population groups had a total of 55.86% of samples characterised as belonging to South Asian ancestry haplogroups (M, U2, U4), followed by West Eurasian (40.18%, H, HV, I, J, K, N, R, R0, T, U1a, U5a, U7, U8a, W, X) and East Asian (3.96%, A, B, C, D, F, G ) (Fig. 1).

The below analysis is mine, after studying the raw data in the paper.