Ethnic India: a genomic view, with special reference to peopling and structure

A Basu, N Mukherjee, S Roy, S Sengupta… - Genome …, 2003 - genome.cshlp.org
We report a comprehensive statistical analysis of data on 58 DNA markers (mitochondrial
[mt], Y-chromosomal, and autosomal) and sequence data of the mtHVS1 from a large …

Peopling of South Asia: investigating the caste–tribe continuum in India

G Chaubey, M Metspalu, T Kivisild, R Villems - Bioessays, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
In recent years, mtDNA and Y chromosome studies involving human populations from South
Asia and the rest of the world have revealed new insights about the peopling of the world by …

Genetic evidence on the origins of Indian caste populations

M Bamshad, T Kivisild, WS Watkins, ME Dixon… - Genome …, 2001 - genome.cshlp.org
The origins and affinities of the∼ 1 billion people living on the subcontinent of India have
long been contested. This is owing, in part, to the many different waves of immigrants that …

[PDF][PDF] Independent origins of Indian caste and tribal paternal lineages

R Cordaux, R Aunger, G Bentley, I Nasidze… - Current Biology, 2004 - cell.com
The origins of the nearly one billion people inhabiting the Indian subcontinent and following
the customs of the Hindu caste system [1, 2] are controversial: are they largely derived from …

[PDF][PDF] The human genetic history of South Asia

PP Majumder - Current Biology, 2010 - cell.com
South Asia—comprising India, Pakistan, countries in the sub-Himalayan region and
Myanmar—was one of the first geographical regions to have been peopled by modern …

[HTML][HTML] A genetic chronology for the Indian Subcontinent points to heavily sex-biased dispersals

M Silva, M Oliveira, D Vieira, A Brandão, T Rito… - BMC evolutionary …, 2017 - Springer
Background India is a patchwork of tribal and non-tribal populations that speak many
different languages from various language families. Indo-European, spoken across northern …

[HTML][HTML] Austro-Asiatic tribes of Northeast India provide hitherto missing genetic link between South and Southeast Asia

BM Reddy, BT Langstieh, V Kumar, T Nagaraja… - PLoS …, 2007 - journals.plos.org
Northeast India, the only region which currently forms a land bridge between the Indian
subcontinent and Southeast Asia, has been proposed as an important corridor for the initial …

The northeast Indian passageway: a barrier or corridor for human migrations?

R Cordaux, G Weiss, N Saha… - Molecular Biology and …, 2004 - academic.oup.com
The northeast Indian passageway connecting the Indian subcontinent to East/Southeast
Asia is thought to have been a major corridor for human migrations. Because it is also an …

[HTML][HTML] Genetic affinities among the lower castes and tribal groups of India: inference from Y chromosome and mitochondrial DNA

I Thanseem, K Thangaraj, G Chaubey, VK Singh… - BMC genetics, 2006 - Springer
Background 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 …

[PDF][PDF] The genetic heritage of the earliest settlers persists both in Indian tribal and caste populations

T Kivisild, S Rootsi, M Metspalu, S Mastana… - The American Journal of …, 2003 - cell.com
Two tribal groups from southern India—the Chenchus and Koyas—were analyzed for
variation in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), the Y chromosome, and one autosomal locus and …