"We show that most Indians derive ancestry from three ancestral groups related to ancient Iranian farmers, Eurasian Steppe pastoralists and South Asian hunter-gatherers. We uncover a common source of Iranian-related ancestry from early Neolithic cultures of Central Asia into the ancestors of Ancestral South Indians (ASI), Ancestral North Indians (ANI), Austro-asiatic-related and East Asian-related groups in India."

50,000 years of Evolutionary History of India: Insights from ∼2,700 Whole Genome Sequences

Elise Kerdoncuff, Laurits Skov, Nick Patterson, Wei Zhao, Yuk Yee Lueng, Gerard D. Schellenberg, Jennifer A. Smith, Sharmistha Dey, Andrea Ganna, AB Dey, Sharon L.R. Kardia, Jinkook Lee, Priya Moorjani
bioRxiv 2024.02.15.580575; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.02.15.580575 #Science #STEM #Biology #Genome #Genomics #DNA #Ancient #aDNA #India #Indians #Preprint @science @biology