South Asian Genetic question

[Jingle Bell]

Who are the Ancient South Asians (from before the Iranian Farmers and the PIE) closest to? Of the Negritos or of the Australo-Melanesians?

[TheForeigner]

I believe Negritos, as I remember years ago reading that Onge people were used as representatives of Ancestral South Indian in a genetic study published by Razib Khan, who is himself from Bangladesh.


Genetically, the Onge, as well as other Andamanese people, are distantly related to East Asian people. The Andamanese Onge show the highest affinity towards some Southeast Asian Negrito ethnic groups, such as the Aeta people, but also ancient remains of Hoabinhians, which are all characterized by Basal-East Asian ancestry.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onge

[TheForeigner]

Oops, I might be wrong.

A study by Reich et al. (2009) found that while the Onge are distantly related to modern Indian people, they have none of the admixture from Neolithic Iranian farmers or steppe pastoralists which is widespread on the mainland. From this, they conclude that the Onge are solely descended from one of the ancient populations which contributed to the genetics of modern Indians.[28] According to Chaubey and Endicott (2013), overall, the Andamanese are more closely related to Southeast Asians and East Asians than they are to present-day South Asians.[29] according to Yelmen et al. 2019, certain South Indian tribal groups are a better proxy for Ancient Ancestral South Asian (AASI) ancestry than the Andamanese Onge are.[30]

[Jingle Bell]

Hm, cool text, i will try get some Negrito and andamese g25 samples to test

[Jingle Bell]

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I dont find samples of South Indians but i guess its dont ill make any great diference, looks like Negritos are the closests