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Genetic affinities between endogamous and inbreeding populations of Uttar Pradesh
BACKGROUND: India has experienced several waves of migration since the Middle Paleolithic. It is believed that the initial demic movement into India was from Africa along the southern coastal route, approximately 60,000–85,000 years before present (ybp). It has also been reported that there were two...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1855350/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17417972 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2156-8-12 |
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author | Khan, Faisal Pandey, Atul Kumar Tripathi, Manorma Talwar, Sudha Bisen, Prakash S Borkar, Minal Agrawal, Suraksha |
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description | BACKGROUND: India has experienced several waves of migration since the Middle Paleolithic. It is believed that the initial demic movement into India was from Africa along the southern coastal route, approximately 60,000–85,000 years before present (ybp). It has also been reported that there were two other major colonization which included eastward diffusion of Neolithic farmers (Elamo Dravidians) from Middle East sometime between 10,000 and 7,000 ybp and a southern dispersal of Indo Europeans from Central Asia 3,000 ybp. Mongol entry during the thirteenth century A.D. as well as some possible minor incursions from South China 50,000 to 60,000 ybp may have also contributed to cultural, linguistic and genetic diversity in India. Therefore, the genetic affinity and relationship of Indians with other world populations and also within India are often contested. In the present study, we have attempted to offer a fresh and immaculate interpretation on the genetic relationships of different North Indian populations with other Indian and world populations. RESULTS: We have first genotyped 20 tetra-nucleotide STR markers among 1800 north Indian samples of nine endogamous populations belonging to three different socio-cultural strata. Genetic distances (Nei's D(A )and Reynold's Fst) were calculated among the nine studied populations, Caucasians and East Asians. This analysis was based upon the allelic profile of 20 STR markers to assess the genetic similarity and differences of the north Indian populations. North Indians showed a stronger genetic relationship with the Europeans (D(A )0.0341 and F(st )0.0119) as compared to the Asians (D(A )0.1694 and F(st )– 0.0718). The upper caste Brahmins and Muslims were closest to Caucasians while middle caste populations were closer to Asians. Finally, three phylogenetic assessments based on two different NJ and ML phylogenetic methods and PC plot analysis were carried out using the same panel of 20 STR markers and 20 geo-ethnic populations. The three phylogenetic assessments revealed that north Indians are clustering with Caucasians. CONCLUSION: The genetic affinities of Indians and that of different caste groups towards Caucasians or East Asians is distributed in a cline where geographically north Indians and both upper caste and Muslim populations are genetically closer to the Caucasians. |
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spelling | pubmed-18553502007-04-25 Genetic affinities between endogamous and inbreeding populations of Uttar Pradesh Khan, Faisal Pandey, Atul Kumar Tripathi, Manorma Talwar, Sudha Bisen, Prakash S Borkar, Minal Agrawal, Suraksha BMC Genet Research Article BACKGROUND: India has experienced several waves of migration since the Middle Paleolithic. It is believed that the initial demic movement into India was from Africa along the southern coastal route, approximately 60,000–85,000 years before present (ybp). It has also been reported that there were two other major colonization which included eastward diffusion of Neolithic farmers (Elamo Dravidians) from Middle East sometime between 10,000 and 7,000 ybp and a southern dispersal of Indo Europeans from Central Asia 3,000 ybp. Mongol entry during the thirteenth century A.D. as well as some possible minor incursions from South China 50,000 to 60,000 ybp may have also contributed to cultural, linguistic and genetic diversity in India. Therefore, the genetic affinity and relationship of Indians with other world populations and also within India are often contested. In the present study, we have attempted to offer a fresh and immaculate interpretation on the genetic relationships of different North Indian populations with other Indian and world populations. RESULTS: We have first genotyped 20 tetra-nucleotide STR markers among 1800 north Indian samples of nine endogamous populations belonging to three different socio-cultural strata. Genetic distances (Nei's D(A )and Reynold's Fst) were calculated among the nine studied populations, Caucasians and East Asians. This analysis was based upon the allelic profile of 20 STR markers to assess the genetic similarity and differences of the north Indian populations. North Indians showed a stronger genetic relationship with the Europeans (D(A )0.0341 and F(st )0.0119) as compared to the Asians (D(A )0.1694 and F(st )– 0.0718). The upper caste Brahmins and Muslims were closest to Caucasians while middle caste populations were closer to Asians. Finally, three phylogenetic assessments based on two different NJ and ML phylogenetic methods and PC plot analysis were carried out using the same panel of 20 STR markers and 20 geo-ethnic populations. The three phylogenetic assessments revealed that north Indians are clustering with Caucasians. CONCLUSION: The genetic affinities of Indians and that of different caste groups towards Caucasians or East Asians is distributed in a cline where geographically north Indians and both upper caste and Muslim populations are genetically closer to the Caucasians. BioMed Central 2007-04-07 /pmc/articles/PMC1855350/ /pubmed/17417972 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2156-8-12 Text en Copyright © 2007 Khan et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Khan, Faisal Pandey, Atul Kumar Tripathi, Manorma Talwar, Sudha Bisen, Prakash S Borkar, Minal Agrawal, Suraksha Genetic affinities between endogamous and inbreeding populations of Uttar Pradesh |
title | Genetic affinities between endogamous and inbreeding populations of Uttar Pradesh |
title_full | Genetic affinities between endogamous and inbreeding populations of Uttar Pradesh |
title_fullStr | Genetic affinities between endogamous and inbreeding populations of Uttar Pradesh |
title_full_unstemmed | Genetic affinities between endogamous and inbreeding populations of Uttar Pradesh |
title_short | Genetic affinities between endogamous and inbreeding populations of Uttar Pradesh |
title_sort | genetic affinities between endogamous and inbreeding populations of uttar pradesh |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1855350/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17417972 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2156-8-12 |
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