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Genome-wide analysis correlates Ayurveda Prakriti.
Scientific reports - 29 Oct 2015
Govindaraj Periyasamy, Nizamuddin Sheikh, Sharath Anugula, Jyothi Vuskamalla, Rotti Harish, Raval Ritu, Nayak Jayakrishna, Bhat Balakrishna K, Prasanna B V, Shintre Pooja, Sule Mayura, Joshi Kalpana S, Dedge Amrish P, Bharadwaj Ramachandra, Gangadharan G G, Nair Sreekumaran, Gopinath Puthiya M, Patwardhan Bhushan, Kondaiah Paturu, Satyamoorthy Kapaettu, Valiathan Marthanda Varma Sankaran, Thangaraj Kumarasamy
Abstract excerpt
The practice of Ayurveda, the traditional medicine of India, is based on the concept of three major constitutional types (Vata, Pitta and Kapha) defined as "Prakriti". To the best of our knowledge, no study has convincingly correlated genomic variations with the classification of Prakriti. In the present study, we performed genome-wide SNP (single nucleotide polymorphism) analysis (Affymetrix, 6.0) of 262...
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