Article
Unraveling the Population History of Indian Siddis.
Genome biology and evolution - 1 Jun 2017
Das Ranajit, Upadhyai Priyanka
Abstract excerpt
The Siddis are a unique Indian tribe of African, South Asian, and European ancestry. While previous investigations have traced their ancestral origins to the Bantu populations from subSaharan Africa, the geographic localization of their ancestry has remained elusive. Here, we performed biogeographical analysis to delineate the ancestral origin of the Siddis employing an admixture based algorithm, Geographical...
Topics
- Algorithms
- Asian People
- Black People
- Chromosomes, Human, Y
- DNA, Mitochondrial
- Evolution, Molecular
- Gene Frequency
- Genetic Markers
- Genetic Variation
- Genetics, Population
- Genome, Human
- Haplotypes