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What DNA Says About Aryan Invasion Theory -2 - dhu - 06-11-2012 An angle that really needs exploring... [url="http://www.medindia.net/news/leprosy-pathogen-eludes-vital-vitamin-d-dependent-immune-response-96867-1.htm"]Leprosy Pathogen Eludes Vital Vitamin D-Dependent Immune Response[/url] What DNA Says About Aryan Invasion Theory -2 - RomaIndian - 06-11-2012 What do you think about Reich et al "Ancestral Southindian"/"Ancestral Northindian"? -Im just curious, I think an Aryan Invasion/Migration cannot be inferred. What DNA Says About Aryan Invasion Theory -2 - ramana - 06-11-2012 [quote name='dhu' date='10 June 2012 - 05:44 AM' timestamp='1339306591' post='115076'] Also, there is evidence that the keepers of the holy mecca are directly descendant from S Asia/Iran. [/quote] Dhu, Please elaborate. Thanks, ramana What DNA Says About Aryan Invasion Theory -2 - G.Subramaniam - 06-12-2012 @ramana, It may be useful to have Dhu post on Shiv's out of India thread on the other forum What DNA Says About Aryan Invasion Theory -2 - G.Subramaniam - 06-12-2012 There have been several waves out of India not only to Europe but also to middle east The berbers, MtDNA is U6 which originates in Punjab, 40k years ago The Arabs and Jews are Y-Haplogroup J, which also originates in India What DNA Says About Aryan Invasion Theory -2 - dhu - 06-12-2012 The clades of R1a1 seen in Saudi Arabia are Indo-Iranian specific and actually span the full spectrum of Indo-Iranian specific clades, meaning large scale migration into Arabia from Iran/India. These include the specific tribe that is the keeper of the "holy mosque" at mecca: the name of the tribe I cannot remember. Within the Kurds are found entire clades equivalent to the european-specific clades, and this is a good indicator of the diversity to be found further east from where the Kurds are to have migrated. Equivalent clades have also been found in India. The C Asiatic clades including Tarim and Andronovo are India-specific. What is seen is the wave model of R1a1 expansion: 1st was European-specific expanding out of the ME (probably Iran), with a 2nd wave trailing the the 1st which was more Asiatic-specific with percolations also into Europe.. What DNA Says About Aryan Invasion Theory -2 - RomaIndian - 06-12-2012 Really Awesome Thread, with much Informations. <img src='http://www.india-forum.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=' ' />
What DNA Says About Aryan Invasion Theory -2 - Guest - 06-14-2012 Subramaniam ji, Please bear with me, I am only confused so I keep repeating this question, from wiki of R haplogroup: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_R_%28mtDNA%29 the distribution map of R places R1 near Turmenistan: R1* (16278): In Kurdish from Turkmenistan (9%).[9] R1a* (3337): Found in Brahmins from Uttar Pradesh (India).[5] Also in Adygei people (Caucasus). R1a1: Found in Northwest Caucasian people like Kabardins and Adygei people. Observed in eastern European populations like northwestern Russians and Poles.[12] so on one hand we know that R's diversity places R in India, yet this wiki places R1 in Turmenistan? how can one reconcile this? kindly explain, only trying to understand. AIT/AMT adherents keep bringing this up to say that R1 actually is European even though R is in India, I am confused. What DNA Says About Aryan Invasion Theory -2 - G.Subramaniam - 06-14-2012 If you look at the Y-DNA tree A = African C = Onge Negrito Andamanese who look just like African Negros F = First modern human, with slightly less Negroid Nose and less Negroid Lips and Skin color of dark brown, instead of black, and 10% bigger brain. or in other words, first modern human F is the ancestor of 90% of modern humans, all Oriental, all Indians, all Arabs, all whites Many of the Indian SC-ST population is F. Such as Irula snake catcher tribal in Tamil Nadu DNA shows that they have been endogamously separate from the local Dravidians for nearly 35k years L1 = Dravidian OBC P = Madia Gond, a tribe near Mumbai Q = Oriental, Amerind, and some Indian tribes P and Q are originated in India R is descended from P All sources of R are in India Central Asia is basically a desert now and even more of a desert in the ice age and sparsely populated R, R1A, R2 is all originated in India, per wiki-Underhill The Chenchu tribals are an early version of R1A Wiki is open-source, so anyone can add his fantasies to it about R R is Indian upper caste ancestral, White descendant Lactase Tolerance is Upper caste ancestral, white descendant SLC24A5 skin color is Indian ancestral, white descendant Lactase tolerance gene is 10k years old, SLC24A5 is 6k years old -- You should really read all the posts by Dhu What DNA Says About Aryan Invasion Theory -2 - Guest - 06-15-2012 Subramaniam ji, Thanks for the patience and for explaining it to me. Dhu ji is above me <img src='http://www.india-forum.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=' ' /> but I will read again...Regards. What DNA Says About Aryan Invasion Theory -2 - dhu - 06-15-2012 Nag, You are looking at the mtDNA page not at the Y-DNA page for R1a1. "AIT/AMT adherents keep bringing this up to say that R1 actually is European even though R is in India, I am confused." R1b is now well known to be a late entrant into Europe from the ME: actually it is Iranian and even Possibly even S Asian. It is impossible to maintain the opposite direction of migration for R1a1 from that of R1b. Quite simply. What DNA Says About Aryan Invasion Theory -2 - G.Subramaniam - 06-16-2012 [quote name='dhu' date='16 June 2012 - 03:41 AM' timestamp='1339797792' post='115098'] Nag, You are looking at the mtDNA page not at the Y-DNA page for R1a1. "AIT/AMT adherents keep bringing this up to say that R1 actually is European even though R is in India, I am confused." R1b is now well known to be a late entrant into Europe from the ME: actually it is Iranian and even Possibly even S Asian. It is impossible to maintain the opposite direction of migration for R1a1 from that of R1b. Quite simply. [/quote] In the Oppenheimer book, he calls MtDNA - R as Rohini, meaning Indian He uses Mt-DNA-U as Europa, but U is originated in Punjab 50k years ago, U6 went into North Africa and is the Berber marker What DNA Says About Aryan Invasion Theory -2 - G.Subramaniam - 07-22-2012 mtDNA haplogroup M in Bronze Age Syria Uncategorized No Responses û Jun 21 2012 Science Magazine highlights a presentation in the Bioarchaeology session of the 8th International Congress on the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East (DNA of people living in the middle Euphrates valley 2.5-4.5 Kyrs ago): But at the meeting, biologist Henryk Witas of the University of à Âódà º in Poland presented preliminary evidence of ancient mitochondrial DNA from human teeth from a half-dozen skeletons at two sites in eastern Syria dated to various times in the 3rd millennium B.C.E. Most of the DNA was related to [haplogroup] M, which is not found in people living in the Middle East today but is common among those now living in northern Pakistan, India, and Tibet. Witas concluded that people migrated from the northern part of the Indian subcontinent along trade routes to the west as early as 2500 B.C.E. This surprising conclusion was hotly disputed by others who suspect that the M group once existed in the Near East but has been diluted since. ââ¬ÅThere is no archaeological evidence of Central Asian migrationââ¬Â before medieval times, notes archaeologist Maria Grazia Masetti-Rouault of the Sorbonne University in Paris, who excavated the Syrian sites. ââ¬Åit is way too premature to make any conclusions from this,ââ¬Â adds Reinhard Bernbeck of the Free University in Berlin. Bad reporting aside, M is a huge and extremely diverse clade with divisions on every inhabited continent, not just South Asia (and itââ¬â¢s definitely not completely unknown from the modern Near East ââ¬â see here ââ¬â though, yes, it only holds a minority share, and owes something to relatively recent gene flow from South Asia). I assume the sequences in question belong to characteristically South Asian branches of M ââ¬â among them, perhaps, M6, though thatââ¬â¢s just speculation on my part (see left for isofrequency map from Metspalu et al. (2005) ââ¬Â¦ it probably actually drops off much more steeply north of the Himalayas). This more recent article in the Polish press presents some additional details: Analysis by Prof. Henryk Witas from the Department of Molecular Biology, Medical University of à Âódà º, showed that people from the Indian subcontinent had lived among the inhabitants of the area of Mesopotamia. The scientist isolated mitochondrial DNA from the human remains found by Dr. Jacek Tomczyk, anthropologist from the Cardinal Stefan Wyszyà âski University in Warsaw, at the Syrian archaeological sites Tell Mesaikh and Terqa in the valley of the middle Euphrates. These people lived in different periods between 2500 BC and 500 AD [typo in congress title, or additional samples?]. ââ¬ÅIt turned out that among the analyzed individuals some represented clades [...] of macro-haplogroup M that is [sic?] not found in todayââ¬â¢s Syria. We also know that they originated in the Indian subcontinent (Tibet, Pakistan, India) at least 30 thousand years agoââ¬Â ââ¬â explained Prof. Witas. The researcher suggested that while one of the test subjects from the beginning of our era could have come to Mesopotamia on silk route, the presence of people from the East in the third millennium BC may indicate the existence of trade routes as early as the Bronze Age. ââ¬ÅIt is also possible that examined remains belonged to the descendants of the founders of the first civilization in the region. It should be emphasized that so far there is no other evidence to support this theoryââ¬Â ââ¬â added Prof. Witas. Polish scientists plan to collect a much larger number of specimens by extending the study to other periods and regions of Mesopotamia, which may help to explain the puzzling findings. What DNA Says About Aryan Invasion Theory -2 - ramana - 09-29-2012 New Paper: Shared and Unique Components of Human Population Structure and Genome-Wide Signals of Positive Selection in South Asia Shared and Unique Components of Human Population Structure and Genome-Wide Signals of Positive Selection in South Asia And a blog discussing it: Peeling the population genetic Indian onion And read the comments: Quote:# 2. Giggsy Says: What DNA Says About Aryan Invasion Theory -2 - Virendra - 10-11-2012 This was a good summary citing multiple sources. Thanks What DNA Says About Aryan Invasion Theory -2 - Virendra - 12-01-2012 Not really on AIT/OIT but confirms a late outward migration from India. http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/features/study-traces-modern-gypsy-bloodline-to-india/article4150910.ece Hyderabad, Nov. 30: What do the Roma, the gypsy people of modern Europe, and the Dalits of north-western India have in common? You will be surprised to know, that they share a common ancestry. The origin and migration of the Roma Gypsy as well as their lineage have been subjects of curiosity for anthropologists. There is no archaeological evidence of the early Romanis and historical documentation of these populations is scarce. Genetic studies done by an international team of scientists led by Kumarasamy Thangaraj of the Hyderabad-based Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology has thrown some light on the subject. The study concluded that the aboriginal scheduled caste and scheduled tribe population of north-western India, traditionally referred to as Doma and also Dalits, are the most likely ancestral population of the modern European Roma. The conclusion was made after screening of about 10,000 males around the world, including 7,000 from 205 ethnic population of India, to discern a precise ancestral source of the European Romani population. Based on the genetic signatures existing on the Y chromosome, every male could be assigned to a specific group (haplogroup), hence the paternal lineage can be traced, using these signatures. In human populations, the Y chromosome is passed on from father to son. Therefore, all the males of a family or a population evolved from a single founder male will possess the same Y chromosome. The study, by matching the haplogroups of the Roma and the India tribes, found similarity and contiguity that led to the conclusion that the Domas or dalits are the ancestral population, explained Thangaraj. Another significant conclusion was that the early Romanis migrated from India to Europe around 1,405 years ago. The findings establish similarities between Roma and Doma ethnicities, and lay to rest the theory of inhabitants from Indo-Gangetic plain and Punjab being the ancestors of the Roma Gypsies, said George van Driem, a linguist from the University of Berne, Switzerland, in the study published in PLoS, a open source journal. Ch. Mohan Rao, Director, CCMB, said the study provides DNA-based evidence that support the idea that north-western part of India might be the original place for Roma populations. Similar studies from the lab have provided information about the population structure of India, African origin of Siddi populations, etc. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Regards, Virendra What DNA Says About Aryan Invasion Theory -2 - G.Subramaniam - 01-11-2013 http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/caste-system-an-indigenous-invention-in-south-india/article4290662.ece What DNA Says About Aryan Invasion Theory -2 - G.Subramaniam - 01-11-2013 http://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/caste-system-an-indigenous-invention-in-south-india/article4290662.ece Caste system: an indigenous invention in South India? D. BALASUBRAMANIAN SHARE ÷ COMMENT (2) ÷ PRINT ÷ T+ The HIndu Well established: A recent paper concludes that social stratification was already present among the Adivasis of Tamil Nadu well before the ââ¬ËAryanââ¬â¢ migration. Photo G.N. Rao TOPICS science and technology Patrilineage and demographic events seem to have brought in social strata and restricted gene pools, not external intervention What is the origin of the caste system in India? This has been a contentious subject in the history of our country. Was this an import from outside? A strong group of scholars think that it was the doing of the people who came from West Asia who migrated and settled here around 3000 ââ¬â 4000 years ago. This ââ¬Ëexternalââ¬â¢ or ââ¬Ësubjugationââ¬â¢ model has been the received wisdom. On the other hand, there are other scholars who suggest it to be the result of ââ¬Åcultural diffusionââ¬Â among the original inhabitants themselves (anthropologists use the hard-to-pronounce term autochthones, meaning literally sons of the soil, to describe them). Not imported In other words, social hierarchy or stratification is not an imported imposition but an indigenous invention. This alternate model would then posit the caste system to have been with us be much earlier, namely in people who were already in India in the Pleistocene era, between 30,000 ââ¬â 10,000 years ago. How does one address this question of the origin of the caste system in India? A recent paper by G. Arun Kumar (of the Genographic Laboratory of Madurai Kamaraj University (MKU) Madurai) and others, published in the Journal PLoS ONE on November 28, 2012 (accessible free online at <PLOS ONE 7(11): e50269.doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0050269>) has taken a combination of genetic and anthropological analysis to address this question. And it concludes that social stratification was already present among the Adivasis or tribal groups of Tamil Nadu well before the ââ¬ËAryanââ¬â¢ migration. In other words, it was and has been an indigenous invention. I asked Professor Ramasamy Pitchappan, the Principal investigator of this project about the details of this study, its methods, results and logic behind the analysis and the conclusions. Prof. Pitchappan was earlier at MKU for long years, and is now at the Chettinad Academy of Research and Education, Chennai. He has been working on the Genographic project for quite some time. He pointed out that they took advantage of two important facts. One is the anthropological fact that the caste system is sustained by patrilineage. In other words, it runs through, and is sustained by the male lineage through generations. The second is the genetic fact that fathers pass on their Y chromosomes in the genome only to their sons, and not to daughters. (Mothers have no such chauvinistic piggery. They pass their X chromosomes both to sons and daughters, plus they pass on their cellular energy factories called mitochondria as well, as matrilineage; no sex-based distinction here). This twin paternal inheritance of restricting the caste designation and the Y chromosome has allowed Pitchappan and collaborators to study over 1,680 people in chosen parts of Tamil Nadu. Many are tribals living in isolation, practicing hunting/gathering, foraging and seasonal dry land agriculture and marrying strictly endogamously within their own sub-tribes (Paliyan, Pulayar, Irulas, Kadar, Thoda, Vanniyar). Analysis of their Y chromosomes across generations, and also of their socio-cultural habits was done by the researchers. This was further compared with non-tribals (for example Brahmins, Sourashtrians, Vadamas, who are thought to be of Indo- European linguistic group). Revealing results The results were revealing. They found strong evidence for genetic structure associated primarily with the mode of subsistence; in other words, fathers passed on their occupation and way of life to their sons. Plus, since the group analyzed specifically one part of the Y chromosome that does not get diluted by recombination, they could do what geneticists refer as coalescence analysis, which allowed them to understand the genetic ancestry of traits and habits. This let them suggest that social stratification of these indigenous sons of the soil had already occurred between 4000 to 6000 years ago, well before the West Asian influx. The authors note that ââ¬Åthe overall Y-chromosome patterns, the time depth of population diversifications and the period of differentiation were best explained by the emergence of agricultural technology in South Indiaââ¬Â. In other words, population differentiation occurred well before the ââ¬ËVarnaââ¬â¢ caste system. Patrilineage and demographic events seem to have brought in social strata and restricted gene pools, not external intervention. Chromosomes tell us the genetic history or parentage. Demography tells us how people divided themselves or mixed with one another and brought forth generations. Factors such as climate history, invention and use of tools and technology, and related methods brought people together and made them stay or move in groups. Culture and sociology have isolated and grouped people into stratified societies, restricting them into ââ¬Ågene poolsââ¬Â which is another way of saying ââ¬Ëcastesââ¬â¢. Finally, look at the irony of it all. After all, mating and marriage is the mixing of genes; the more diverse such mixing, the greater the variety and enrichment of traits. Genetics tells us that the whole world is but one family, a point that the Maha Upanishad furthered by stating ayam bandhurayam neti ganana laghuchetasam udaracharitanam tu vasudhaiva kutumbakam (Only small men discriminate saying: One is a relative; the other is a stranger. For those who live magnanimously the entire world constitutes but a family). Yet, what a caste or any such social pigeonholing does is to restrict this width of choice from an ocean into a gene pool or even a pond! dbala@lvpei.org What DNA Says About Aryan Invasion Theory -2 - dhu - 01-15-2013 Al Shibi clan of the Quraish to which Mahomet belonged are directly descended out of Gujarat which was the geographic epicentre for the spread of Indic r1a1 into Arabia. The European clades of R1a1 in contrast are descended from Iran. Just to clarify, I do not believe that the Indic transformed into monotheists, I do believe there were certain clans co-opted by the Western Empire.. Quote:"Gatekeeping and custody are synonymous. It is a service of the Sacred House, opening and locking its doors. This was bestowed on Tasm, a tribe of Aad before Quraish. It passed to Khuza'a, then Qusai, who gave it to his son Abdul Dar, who handed it over to his son Othman. It shifted from one person to another until it rested with their nephew Shaiba. It is still inherited by their ancestors up to the present day. The Prophet (blessings and peace be upon him) handed the key to Bani Shaiba in' the year of the conquest of Makkah AI-Mukarramah, and said, "Take it, O Bani Talha, eternally up to the Day of Resurrection, and it will not be taken from you unless by an unjust, oppressive tyrant". (12) Quote: Bani Shaiba Quote:Abdul Muttalib What DNA Says About Aryan Invasion Theory -2 - rhytha - 08-23-2013 [size="2"]We analysed the genetic structure of â˼1000 samples representing 27 ethnic groups settled in Tamil Nadu, south India, derived from two linguistic families (Dravidians and Indoââ¬âEuropeans) representing four religious groups (Hinduism, Islam, Chris- tianity and Jainism) using 11 mtDNA markers. Out of 27 ethnic groups, four are in situ populations (Anglo-Indian, Labbai Muslim, Nadar Christian and south Indian Jain) and two are migrants (Gypsy and north Indian Jain) from north India to Tamil Nadu, and 21 are native ethnic groups. Six of the markers we used were monomorphic (HaeIII663, HpaI3592, AluI5176, AluI7025, AluI13262, 9-bp deletion) and five markers were polymorphic (DdeI10394, AluI10397, HinfI12308, HincII13259 and HaeIII16517). Haplogroup frequencies, genetic affinities and admixture analysis are based on the genotype data of poly- morphic markers observed in these populations. Haplogroup frequencies indicate that various ethnic groups entered Tamil Nadu during different time periods. Genetic affinities and admixture estimates revealed that the ethnic groups possessing advanced knowledge of farming cluster in a branch ©, and could be the late arrived settlers as agriculture, was introduced to this region at about 5 to 3 thousand years ago. In situ ethnic groups appear to have arisen at various times as a result of the prevailing dominant socio-cultural forces. Hierarchical Hindu caste system created many ethnic groups in the history of its existence; some of them became isolated for considerable period of time. Over all, among Tamil ethnic groups, in spite of caste systemsââ¬â¢ rigidity, built in flexibility in the system in the form of hypergamy and hypogamy had allowed maternal gene flow between them.[/size] http://www.ias.ac.in/jgenet/Vol90No2/191.pdf |