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    Genetic evidence suggests European migrants may have influenced
    the origins of India's caste system




    A New study has revealed that Indians belonging to higher castes are genetically closer to Europeans than are individuals from lower castes, whose genetic profiles are closer to those of Asians.


    The study compared genetic markers—located on the Y chromosome and the mitochondrial DNA—between 265 Indian men of various castes and 750 African, Asian, European and other Indian men. To broaden the study, 40 markers from chromosomes 1 to 22 were analyzed from more than 600 individuals from different castes and continents. The comparison of the markers among these groups confirmed that genetic similarities to Europeans increased as caste rank increased.

    The study, led by Michael Bamshad of the University of Utah, in Salt Lake City, and his colleagues, is reported to be the most comprehensive genetic analysis to date of the impact of European migrations on the structure and origin of the current Indian population. The article appears in the current issue of Genome Research.

    The caste system, defined in ancient Sanskrit texts, determines a person's rank in society: The Brahmin, who were traditionally priests and scholars, held the highest rank in Hindu society. Warriors and rulers made up the Kshatriya who were the next in line to the Brahmin. Merchants, traders, farmers, and artisans were the third caste called the Vysya. The Shudra were the fourth rank and consisted of laborers. Because of strict rules forbidding marriage between men and women of different castes, these four classes remained distinct for thousands of years.

    Bamshad's team found that Y chromosomes from the Brahmin and Kshatriya closely resembled European Y chromosomes rather than Asian Y chromosomes. The Y chromosomes from the lower castes bore more similarities to the Asian Y chromosome. The mitochondrial DNA showed the same pattern.

    The authors believe their results support the notion that Europeans who migrated into India between 3,000 and 8,000 years ago may have merged with or imposed their social structure on the native northern Indians and placed themselves into the highest castes.

    Analysis of the paternally transmitted Y chromosome among Indians in general indicated that the Y chromosome had a more European flavor. Maternally inherited mitochondrial DNA among Indians is more Asian than European. This suggests that the Europeans who entered India were predominantly male.

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    Also compare with:
    http://dienekes.blogspot.com/2009/09...-rigin-of.html

    Actually there are two basic groups in India, the autochthonous South Asians, mostly Weddoid-Negritid, and the Europoid settlers. Most Indians are in between these two and one cannot make up a simple "Aryan vs. Dravidian" dichotomy, because Europids began to settle in India long before the dawn of Aryans and the Dravidians as an ethnocultural group might have been related to the arrival of Neolithic people of Europid race in India.

    The Aryans were just one of the latest and ethnoculturally more important waves of Europid people which reached the subcontinent.

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    Thanks for the post a really interesting study on ancient migration... What I can't figure out is why Indians always moan and bitch when these scientific studies come out and show they are (main northern Indians) of PART European ancestry thus proving time after time (via several studies) the Indo-Euro Migration to India... They'll scream racism/psuedo-science/colonialism Then the fuckers lighten their hair/their skin etc... Like some Mestizos they are a confused bunch!

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