Refining the South Asian Origin of the Romani people.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Recent genetic studies based on genome-wide Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) data further investigated the history of Roma and suggested that the source of South Asian ancestry in Roma originates most likely from the Northwest region of India.

Methods

In this study, based also on genome-wide SNP data, we attempted to refine these findings using significantly larger number of European Roma samples, an extended dataset of Indian groups and involving Pakistani groups into the analyses. Our Roma data contained 179 Roma samples. Our extended Indian data consisted of 51 distinct Indian ethnic groups, which provided us a higher resolution of the population living on the Indian subcontinent. We used in this study principal component analysis and other ancestry estimat

SUBMITTER: Melegh BI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5580230 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature