Category: Bengali Genomics
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Tibeto-Burmans in Bengal, and Indians in ancient Malaya
Thanks to the Singapore Genome Variation Project, and some data from Lynn Jorde‘s lab, I added some Tibetans and Malays for a pooled data set of East, Southeast, and some South Asians. The marker density was 70,000. I was curious to explore the various contributions of ancestry from eastern Eurasians into northeast South Asia. The Tibetans,…
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“Asian” in all the right places
mtDNA haplogroup G1a2 The pith: In this post I examine the most recent results from 23andMe for my family in the context of familial and regional (Bengal) history. I also use these results to offer up a framework for the ethnognesis of the eastern Ben…