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Genetic evidence on the origins of Indian caste populations.
Genome research - 1 Jun 2001
Bamshad M, Kivisild T, Watkins W S, Dixon M E, Ricker C E, Rao B B, Naidu J M, Prasad B V, Reddy P G, Rasanayagam A, Papiha S S, Villems R, Redd A J, Hammer M F, Nguyen S V, Carroll M L, Batzer M A, Jorde L B
Abstract excerpt
The origins and affinities of the approximately 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 have influenced the genetic structure of India. In the most recent of these waves, Indo-European-speaking people from West Eurasia entered India from the Northwest and diffused throughout the subcontinent. They...
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