The story of the lost twins: decoding the genetic identities of the Kumhar and Kurcha populations from the Indian subcontinent.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The population structure of the Indian subcontinent is a tapestry of extraordinary diversity characterized by the amalgamation of autochthonous and immigrant ancestries and rigid enforcement of sociocultural stratification. Here we investigated the genetic origin and population history of the Kumhars, a group of people who inhabit large parts of northern India. We compared 27 previously published Kumhar SNP genotype data sampled from Uttar Pradesh in north India to various modern day and ancient populations.

Results

Various approaches such as Principal Component Analysis (PCA), Admixture, TreeMix concurred that Kumhars have high ASI ancestry, minimal Steppe component and high genomic proximity to the Kurchas, a small and relatively little-known population found ~ 

SUBMITTER: Das R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7583313 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature