sex-biased admixture
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Some admixture coefficients for South Asian Genotype Project members
Razib Khan runs qpAdm on South Asian Genotype Project members, giving each individual’s Indus Periphery, steppe and Andamanese hunter-gatherer shares in a table, and warns that individuals vary within populations.
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Who doth speaketh the mleccha bhasha?
Answering a reader, Razib Khan argues it is plausible that Indo-European languages spread despite steppe ancestry of only 10 to 20 per cent in the Gangetic plain, citing male-mediated expansion…
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The Indian chapter of Who We Are and How We Got Here
Razib Khan previews the India chapter of David Reich’s book: Ancestral North Indians as a roughly 50/50 steppe and Iranian-farmer mix, Ancestral South Indians with about a quarter Iranian-farmer ancestry,…
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The last days of pre-ancient DNA Indian population genomics
Recommending three open-access papers on South Asian genetics, the author says ancient DNA will soon transform the field, and meanwhile summarises what inference allows: modern South Asians derive from two…
