Indigenous and foreign Y-chromosomes characterize the Lingayat and Vokkaliga populations of Southwest India.

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Previous studies have shown that India's vast coastal rim played an important role in the dispersal of modern humans out of Africa but the Karnataka state, which is located on the southwest coast of India, remains poorly characterized genetically. In the present study, two Dravidian populations, namely Lingayat (N=101) and Vokkaliga (N=102), who represent the two major communities of the Karnataka state, were...

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