{"id":70472,"date":"2012-05-27T00:05:36","date_gmt":"2012-05-27T08:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=16837"},"modified":"2012-05-27T00:05:36","modified_gmt":"2012-05-27T08:05:36","slug":"genetics-random-truths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2012\/05\/27\/genetics-random-truths\/","title":{"rendered":"Genetics\u2019 random truths"},"content":{"rendered":"

Update:<\/strong> Please do not take the labels below (e.g., “Baloch”) as literal ancestral elements.<\/strong><\/em> The most informative way to read them is that they indicate populations where this element is common, and, the relationship of proportions can tell us something.<\/strong><\/em> The literal proportion does not usually tell us much.<\/p>\n

End Update<\/strong><\/p>\n

I was browsing the Harappa<\/a> results, and two new things jumped out at me. Zack now has enough St. Thomas Christian samples<\/a> from Kerala that I think we need to accept as the likely model that this community does not<\/strong> derive from the Brahmins of Kerala<\/a>, as some of them claim. Their genetic profile is rather like many non-Brahmin South Indians, except the Nair, who have a peculiar attested \u00a0history with the Brahmins of their region.<\/p>\n

But that’s not the really interesting finding. Below is a table I constructed from Zack’s data.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Ethnicity<\/strong><\/em>
\nLanguage<\/strong><\/em>
\nS.Indian<\/strong><\/em>
\nBaloch<\/strong><\/em>
\nCaucasian<\/strong><\/em>
\nNE.Euro<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Karnataka Brahmin
\nDravidian
\n47%
\n38%
\n4%
\n6%<\/p>\n

Karnataka Hebbar Iyengar Brahmin
\nDravidian
\n49%
\n36%
\n5%
\n5%<\/p>\n

Karnataka Iyengar
\nDravidian
\n48%
\n39%
\n3%
\n5%<\/p>\n

Karnataka Iyengar Brahmin
\nDravidian
\n48%
\n37%
\n3%
\n7%<\/p>\n

Karnataka Kannada Brahmin
\nDravidian
\n51%
\n35%
\n3%
\n5%<\/p>\n

Karnataka Konkani Brahmin
\nDravidian
\n47%
\n37%
\n2%
\n6%<\/p>\n

Kerala Brahmin
\nDravidian
\n43%
\n39%
\n4%
\n6%<\/p>\n

Tamil Brahmin
\nDravidian
\n46%
\n40%
\n3%
\n6%<\/p>\n

Tamil Brahmin
\nDravidian
\n47%
\n40%
\n3%
\n5%<\/p>\n

Tamil Brahmin
\nDravidian
\n48%
\n39%
\n9%
\n4%<\/p>\n

Tamil Brahmin
\nDravidian
\n47%
\n38%
\n6%
\n4%<\/p>\n

Tamil Brahmin
\nDravidian
\n48%
\n37%
\n6%
\n5%<\/p>\n

Tamil Brahmin
\nDravidian
\n48%
\n37%
\n3%
\n5%<\/p>\n

Tamil Brahmin
\nDravidian
\n48%
\n35%
\n5%
\n6%<\/p>\n

Tamil Brahmin Iyengar
\nDravidian
\n47%
\n38%
\n6%
\n4%<\/p>\n

Tamil Brahmin Iyengar
\nDravidian
\n47%
\n35%
\n6%
\n6%<\/p>\n

Tamil Brahmin Iyengar
\nDravidian
\n50%
\n35%
\n2%
\n8%<\/p>\n

Tamil Brahmin iyer\/iyengar
\nDravidian
\n48%
\n38%
\n2%
\n5%<\/p>\n

Tamil Brahmin iyer\/iyengar
\nDravidian
\n48%
\n38%
\n4%
\n5%<\/p>\n

Tamil Brahmin iyer\/iyengar
\nDravidian
\n47%
\n37%
\n2%
\n5%<\/p>\n

Tamil Brahmin iyer\/iyengar
\nDravidian
\n47%
\n37%
\n6%
\n8%<\/p>\n

Bengali Brahmin
\nIE
\n43%
\n35%
\n4%
\n10%<\/p>\n

Bengali Brahmin
\nIE
\n45%
\n35%
\n2%
\n11%<\/p>\n

Bengali Brahmin
\nIE
\n44%
\n35%
\n5%
\n11%<\/p>\n

Bihari Brahmin
\nIE
\n39%
\n38%
\n5%
\n11%<\/p>\n

Maharashtra\/Madhya Pradesh Saraswat Brahmin<\/em>
\nIE<\/em>
\n47%<\/em>
\n39%<\/em>
\n1%<\/em>
\n6%<\/em><\/p>\n

Mahrashtrian Desastha Brahmin<\/em>
\nIE<\/em>
\n46%<\/em>
\n38%<\/em>
\n8%<\/em>
\n5%<\/em><\/p>\n

Oriya Brahmin
\nIE
\n47%
\n36%
\n0%
\n9%<\/p>\n

Punjabi Brahmin
\nIE
\n33%
\n41%
\n13%
\n10%<\/p>\n

Punjabi Brahmin
\nIE
\n35%
\n40%
\n8%
\n11%<\/p>\n

Rajasthani Brahmin
\nIE
\n32%
\n38%
\n9%
\n15%<\/p>\n

Sindhi Pushtikar\/Pushkarna Brahmin
\nIE
\n31%
\n36%
\n12%
\n10%<\/p>\n

UP Brahmin
\nIE
\n37%
\n38%
\n2%
\n14%<\/p>\n

UP Brahmin
\nIE
\n41%
\n37%
\n7%
\n11%<\/p>\n

I was curious about the distribution of the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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