| Title |
Genetic affinities among the lower castes and tribal groups of India: inference from Y chromosome and mitochondrial DNA
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Genomic Data, August 2006
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2156-7-42 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Ismail Thanseem, Kumarasamy Thangaraj, Gyaneshwer Chaubey, Vijay Kumar Singh, Lakkakula VKS Bhaskar, B Mohan Reddy, Alla G Reddy, Lalji Singh |
| Abstract |
India is a country with enormous social and cultural diversity due to its positioning on the crossroads of many historic and pre-historic human migrations. The hierarchical caste system in the Hindu society dominates the social structure of the Indian populations. The origin of the caste system in India is a matter of debate with many linguists and anthropologists suggesting that it began with the arrival of Indo-European speakers from Central Asia about 3500 years ago. Previous genetic studies based on Indian populations failed to achieve a consensus in this regard. We analysed the Y-chromosome and mitochondrial DNA of three tribal populations of southern India, compared the results with available data from the Indian subcontinent and tried to reconstruct the evolutionary history of Indian caste and tribal populations. |
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