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Brahmin DNA The Times of India - Upper Caste Indian Male More European, Says Study

Upper caste Indian male more European, says study By Chidanand Rajghatta WASHINGTON: The upper caste Indian male population is genetically closer to Europeans than the lower castes, which are more “Asian” according to a potentially controversial new study being published in the forthcoming issue of the journal Human Genome. The authors of the study say their findings support historial data indicating that West Eurasians migrating into india during the last 10,000 years were mostly male.

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Brahmin DNA The Times of India - Upper Caste Indian Male More European, Says Study

Upper caste Indian male more European, says study By Chidanand Rajghatta WASHINGTON: The upper caste Indian male population is genetically closer to Europeans than the lower castes, which are more “Asian” according to a potentially controversial new study being published in the forthcoming issue of the journal Human Genome. The authors of the study say their findings support historial data indicating that West Eurasians migrating into india during the last 10,000 years were mostly male.

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Upper caste Indian male more European, says study

By Chidanand Rajghatta gin of the caste system. The migrat- study,” Bamstad and his associates mixture with Indian population may
WASHINGTON: The upper caste ing or invading male population left also examined 40 additional genes have been proportionate to caste
Indian male population is geneti- descendants in the higher than low- that are ingerited from the father rank,” the study says.
cally closer to Europeans than the er castes and may have even de- and the mother. All of these data Bamstad’s collaborators in the
lower castes, which are more vised the caste system. Bamstad strongly supported the conclusion study include researchers from the
“Asian” according to a potentially said in an interview with this corre- that upper castes have a higher ge- Andhra University, University of
controversial new study being spondent on Thursday. netic similarity to Europeans than Madras and the Anthropological
Bamstad’s study showed that do lower castes, the study says. Survey of India. The group has
published in the forthcoming issue of each caste’s mitochondrial DNA, “These are potentially controver- done work in this area before. In a
the journal Human Genome. which is derived from the mother sial results,” Bamstad said. “But we previously published paper in Na-
The authors of the study say their only, has a greater similarity to are able to demonstrate unequivo- ture magazine, Bamstad’s team said
findings support historial data in- Asians than to Europeans, but the each Indian caste had developed a
dicating that West Eurasians mi- cally that the upper castes are more
uper castes show less similarity similar to Europeans than lower distinctive genetic profile, particu-
grating into india during the last than do the lower castes. castes, and that women are more larly among men, and more so
10,000 years were mostly male. An Conversely, Y-chromosome data, mobile - mostly upwardly - in when there was little intermarriage.
analysis of the genetic material also derived from the father only, show the caste system.” But the women’s genes suggested
shows that the “ancestors of Indian each caste more similar to Euro- The study in fact says the genetic greater social mobility.
men and women came from differ- peans, with the upper castes being distance is closest between Euro- The discovery suggests that
ent parts of the world.” says most similar, probably because peans and Brahmins (0.10) fol- women on occasion marry men
Michael Bamstad of the University more Eurasian males migrated to lowed by Kshatriyas (0.12) and from higher castes producing chil-
of Utah, who led the research India than did Eurasian females. Vaishyas (0.16). dren that have their husbands so-
group. Such a finding could also imply “Assuming that contemporary cial rank, the researchers said,
The researchers say this differ- that the women of the sub-conti- Europeans reflect West Eurasian claiming the “stratification of the
ence in gender and genetic make- nent are more Indian than are men. affinities; these data indicate that Hindu caste system is driven by
up may also hold the key to the ori To increase the power of the the amount of West Eurasian ad women.”

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