Bengalis
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Bengalis are not totally Burmese in their East Asian ancestry
Razib Khan reports that, with Tibetan samples, Bangladeshi samples look more Tibetan-skewed than Burmese ones, and that Austro-Asiatic groups have a different, more southern East Asian source.
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Tibeto-Burman admixture into Bengalis
Razib Khan, looking at Tibetan genotypes for a Substack piece, says it is clear that the East Asian ancestry in Bengalis comes from Tibeto-Burman rather than Austro-Asiatic sources.
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Bengalis are all basically very similar (except for Brahmins)
Razib Khan reads a new genome study as showing West Bengalis and Bangladeshis are broadly similar, with more East Asian ancestry in Bangladeshis and more variance in West Bengal, probably…
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Browncast on Bangladesh, 2023
A BrownCast on Bangladesh in 2023: the hosts discuss the 2025 election and an emerging Awami League one-party state, the lack of contact between West Bengal and Bangladesh, a Southeast…
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Population structure in South Asian – Genomes Asian 1K paper
A note on a new South Asian medical cohort paper on founder effects and homozygosity, which the author says confirms a west-to-east cline among Bengalis regardless of religion, though it…
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Merry Christmas!
Razib Khan reads the genetics of a sample with Sadgop and Baidya parents as showing that Baidya are not Brahmins who lost caste, since Bengali Brahmins shift toward the steppe,…
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Bangladesh and West Bengal genetics
Razib Khan reports more Bengali samples, finding Bengali Brahmins shifted as expected and Kayasthas not so genetically distinct from other Bengalis, so his working model is that they were peasants…
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Bengal and Dharma: A Recipe for Revival
Reposted from the author’s Medium page, this essay argues that Dharmic civilisation has lost ground over centuries, including Punjab, Sindh and Bengal, and that reviving Bengal means going back to…
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Tibeto-Burmans, Munda, and Bengalis
A newly published Chaubey lab paper shows a clear genetic difference between Tibeto-Burmans and Munda, which the poster takes to confirm that East Asian admixture in Bengalis was not Munda,…
