Article
Characterizing the genetic differences between two distinct migrant groups from Indo-European and Dravidian speaking populations in India.
BMC genetics - 22 Jul 2014
Ali Mohammad, Liu Xuanyao, Pillai Esakimuthu Nisha, Chen Peng, Khor Chiea-Chuen, Ong Rick Twee-Hee, Teo Yik-Ying
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: India is home to many ethnically and linguistically diverse populations. It is hypothesized that history of invasions by people from Persia and Central Asia, who are referred as Aryans in Hindu Holy Scriptures, had a defining role in shaping the Indian population canvas. A shift in spoken languages from Dravidian languages to Indo-European languages around 1500 B.C. is central to the Aryan Invasion...
Topics
- Ethnicity
- Gene Flow
- Gene Frequency
- Genetics, Population
- Genome, Human
- Haplotypes
- Human Migration
- Humans
- India
- Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
- Selection, Genetic
- White People