Category Archives: St. Thomas Christians

Last year I was approached by someone from the Knanaya community of South India as to their genetics. The Knanaya believe themselves to be descendants of later Near Eastern migrants than the other Nasrani St. Thomas Christians (both communities seem to believe in some connection to Near Eastern Jews). The history of these communities is […]

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Last year I posted The Genetics of the St. Thomas Christians. Recently I got some more samples. Of these, four were clearly self-identified as Southist/Knanaya Christians (as opposed to Northist Christians). The Knanaya are a bit different in their traditions than the broader much larger St. Thomas Christian community. In the PCA above the bottom […]

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First, I have to say I appreciate everyone who keeps sending data to the South Asian Genotype Project. Basically, I’m automating the pipeline, finding ways to merge data from a host of sources, but also figuring out how to refine the analysis. But until then, today I decided to do some more manual analysis of […]

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Razib Khan