Ancient Human Migrations to and through Jammu Kashmir- India were not of Males Exclusively.

ABSTRACT: Jammu and Kashmir (J&K), the Northern most State of India, has been under-represented or altogether absent in most of the phylogenetic studies carried out in literature, despite its strategic location in the Himalayan region. Nonetheless, this region may have acted as a corridor to various migrations to and from mainland India, Eurasia or northeast Asia. The belief goes that most of the migrations post-late-Pleistocene were mainly male dominated, primarily associated with population invasions, where female migration may thus have been limited. To evaluate female-centered migration patterns in the region, we sequenced 83 complete mitochondrial genomes of unrelated individuals belonging to different ethnic groups from the state. We observed a high diversity in the studied maternal lineages,

SUBMITTER: Sharma I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5770440 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature