Re: [Goanet] Indian ancestry revealed in massive study
* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Planning to get married in Goa? www.weddingsetcgoa.com Making your 'dream wedding' possible Much is now being said of the Aryan-Dravidian divide.There is enough of evidence(read great historians like Romila Thappar) who very clearly show that India was invaded by the Aryans.and they brought in Brahmanism to our country cheers, Bosco
[Goanet] Indian ancestry revealed in massive study
* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Planning to get married in Goa? www.weddingsetcgoa.com Making your 'dream wedding' possible Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2009 16:18:12 +0530 From: "Dr. U. G. Barad" I do not think that the article can be read to substantiate the Aryan Invasion Theory. But I am not an expert in this subject. But around the same time, there was an article in The Times of India with the title "Aryan-Dravidian divide a myth: Study". It is available at: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/india/Aryan-Dravidian-divide-a-myth-Study/articleshow/5053274.cms Mario observes: All very interesting as part of history but worthless in judging an individual. As the lone voice on Goanet of reason, truth and peace, I recommend to everyone on Goanet an adaptation of the most valuable and immortal insight of Martin Luther King, Jr. "I have a dream that my children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by their ANCESTRY but by the content of their character."
Re: [Goanet] Indian ancestry revealed in massive study
* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Planning to get married in Goa? www.weddingsetcgoa.com Making your 'dream wedding' possible --- On Sun, 10/11/09, Dr. U. G. Barad wrote: > > I do not think that the article can be read to substantiate > the Aryan Invasion Theory. > This is not true. The Nature article does support the view that Indo-Europeans invaded and settled in India as the Ancient North Indians. The lay news story in Times of India, on the other hand, is misleading and confusing. Cheers, Santosh --- On Sun, 10/11/09, Dr. U. G. Barad wrote: > > But around the same time, there was an article in The Times > of India with > the title "Aryan-Dravidian divide a myth: Study". It > is available at: > > http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/india/Aryan-Dravidian-divide-a-myth- > Study/articleshow/5053274.cms >
[Goanet] Indian ancestry revealed in massive study
* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Planning to get married in Goa? www.weddingsetcgoa.com Making your 'dream wedding' possible In response to the article "Indian ancestry revealed in massive study", M D'Mello writes: "In other words, the Aryan Invasion theory is substantiated Can some one explain in simple terms please???" I do not think that the article can be read to substantiate the Aryan Invasion Theory. But I am not an expert in this subject. But around the same time, there was an article in The Times of India with the title "Aryan-Dravidian divide a myth: Study". It is available at: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/news/india/Aryan-Dravidian-divide-a-myth- Study/articleshow/5053274.cms Best regards, Dr. U. G. Barad
Re: [Goanet] Indian ancestry revealed in massive study
* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Planning to get married in Goa? www.weddingsetcgoa.com Making your 'dream wedding' possible Sir, In other words, the Aryan Invasion theory is substantiated Can some one explain in simple terms please??? MD. --- On Sat, 10/10/09, Goanet News wrote: > > Indian ancestry revealed in massive study > > IANS > First Published : 25 Sep 2009 03:19:58 PM IST > Last Updated : 25 Sep 2009 03:58:48 PM IST > > LONDON: The largest ever DNA survey of Indian heritage has > revealed > that the population of India was founded on just two > ancient groups > that are as genetically distinct from each other as they > are from > other Asians.
[Goanet] Indian ancestry revealed in massive study
* G * O * A * N * E * T C * L * A * S * S * I * F * I * E * D * S * Planning to get married in Goa? www.weddingsetcgoa.com Making your 'dream wedding' possible Indian ancestry revealed in massive study IANS First Published : 25 Sep 2009 03:19:58 PM IST Last Updated : 25 Sep 2009 03:58:48 PM IST LONDON: The largest ever DNA survey of Indian heritage has revealed that the population of India was founded on just two ancient groups that are as genetically distinct from each other as they are from other Asians. The findings of the study, conducted by a group of top international geneticists, have strong implications for health and medicine, and reveal important new information on caste in India. The study shows that most Indian populations are genetic admixtures of two ancient but genetically divergent groups, which each contributed around 40-60 percent of the DNA to most present-day Indians, Nature magazine reported Wednesday. One ancestral lineage - genetically similar to Middle Eastern, Central Asian and European populations - was higher in upper-caste individuals and speakers of Indo-European languages such as Hindi, the researchers found. The other lineage was not close to any group outside the Indian subcontinent, and was most common in people indigenous to the Andaman islands, says the study conducted by a team led by David Reich of the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Lalji Singh of the Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology in Hyderabad, India. Nature said that although India makes up around one-sixth of the world's population, it has been "sorely under-represented" in genome-wide studies of human genetic variation. The Indian Genome Variation database, launched in 2003 to fill the gap, has so far studied only 420 DNA-letter differences, called single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), in 75 genes. In sharp contrast, the study reported by Nature has probed more than 560,000 SNPs across the genomes of 132 Indian individuals from 25 diverse ethnic and tribal groups dotted all over India. The researchers also found that Indian populations were much more highly subdivided than European populations. But whereas European ancestry is mostly carved up by geography, Indian segregation was driven largely by caste. "There are populations that have lived in the same town and same village for thousands of years without exchanging genes," said Reich. The authors of the study said the new genetic evidence refutes the claim that the Indian caste structure was a modern invention of British colonialism. "This idea that caste is thousands of years old is a big deal," said Nicole Boivin, an Oxford University archaeologist. "To say that endogamy (the practice of marrying within a caste, community or tribe) goes back so far, and that genetics shows it, is going to be controversial to many anthropologists." The study also suggests that Indian populations, although currently huge in number, were founded by relatively small bands of individuals - a finding that has clinical implications. "There will be a lot of recessive diseases in India that will be different in each population and that can be searched for and mapped genetically," Reich said. "That will be important for health in India."
