South Asian Genotype Project, Summer 2018 Update
I’ve put another update on the South Asian Genotype Project. If you’ve contributed since March check it out. Again, if you are interested: send me a 23andMe, Ancestry, MyHeritage, Family Tree DNA raw genotype file to contactgnxp -at- gmail.com. In the subject please put: “South Asian Genotype Project” The state/province your family is from Ethnolinguistic group If […]
Rakhigarhi sample doesn’t have steppe ancestry (probably “Indus Periphery”)
We’ve been waiting for two years now, and it looks like they’re about to pull the trigger, Indus Valley People Did Not Have Genetic Contribution From The Steppes: Head Of Ancient DNA Lab Testing Rakhigarhi Samples: Niraj Rai, the head of the Ancient DNA Laboratory at Lucknow’s Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeosciences (BSIP), where the […]
The population genomics of South Asia is complicated, and politics doesn’t make it easier
Many people have been sending me links to this article, By rewriting history, Hindu nationalists aim to assert their dominance over India. Here’s a key section: The RSS asserts that ancestors of all people of Indian origin – including 172 million Muslims – were Hindu and that they must accept their common ancestry as part […]
The Dravidianization of India
On this week’s The Insight Spencer Wells and I talk about the Indo-Aryan arrival to South Asia. This was recorded very early last summer, and I’m rather unguarded (it’s well before I had the piece published in India Today). I think 2018 will finally be the year that a lot of South Asia will be […]
Visualization of genetic distances, part n
Zack Ajmal has been taking his Reference 3 data set for a stroll over at the Harappa Ancestry Project. Or, more accurately, he’s been driving his computer to crunch up ADMIXTURE results ascending up a later of K’s. Because it is the Harappa…
Genetics as the myth buster: Indian edition
Whenever Zack Ajmal posts a new update to the Harappa Ancestry Project he appends some data to his ethnic database. This sends me to Wikipedia, because how many people are supposed to know what a “Muslim Rawther” means? Well, if you are a M…