Tag Archives: bihar

June Update

Posted by on June 4, 2011 No comments

I have a total of 123 participants in the project right now who have sent me their raw data. Six of those have relatives participating and thus have to be filtered out for most analysis other than individual admixture percentages etc where I divide participants into small groups.

The following groups are represented:

  • South Asian: 90
    • Tamil: 15
    • Punjab: 13
    • Bengal: 9
    • Karnataka: 7
    • Andhra Pradesh: 5
    • Uttar Pradesh: 5
    • Kerala: 5
    • Bihar: 5
    • Gujarati: 4
    • Sindhi: 4
    • Maharashtra: 3
    • Sri Lankan: 3
    • Caribbean Indian: 2
    • Kashmir: 2
    • Romani: 2
    • Goa: 1
    • Rajasthan: 1
    • Baloch: 1
    • Orissa: 1
    • Anglo-Indian: 1
    • Unknown: 1
  • Others: 33
    • Iran: 8
    • Assyrian: 3
    • Kurd: 2
    • Mexican: 2
    • Ashkenazi: 2
    • Northwest European: 2
    • Iraqi Arab: 2
    • Georgian: 1
    • Azeri: 1
    • Kazakh: 1
    • Brazilian: 1
    • Yemen: 1
    • Irish: 1
    • Egypt: 1
    • Gagauz Turk: 1
    • Afro-Belizean: 1
    • Iraqi Mandaean: 1
    • Egyptian/Iraqi Jew: 1
    • French/Madagascar/Indian: 1

Most are 23andme data while 4 are from FTDNA.

We are getting close to 100 South Asian participants.

Related Reading:

Gruesome Playground Injuries; Animals Out of Paper; Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo: Three Plays
Andhra: Webster's Timeline History, 322 BC - 2007
Popular Poetry Of The Baloches V2 (1907)
Tribals of Orissa
The Making of Southern Karnataka: Society Polity and Culture in the Early Medieval Period, AD 400-1030

April Update

Posted by on May 1, 2011 5 comments

I have a total of 97 participants in the project right now who have sent me their raw data. Six of those have relatives participating and thus have to be filtered out for most analysis other than individual admixture percentages etc where I divide participants into small groups.

The following groups are represented:

  • Tamil: 14
  • Punjab: 10
  • Bengal: 7
  • Iran: 7
  • Karnataka: 6
  • Andhra Pradesh: 4
  • Uttar Pradesh: 4
  • Gujarati: 3
  • Kerala: 3
  • Maharashtra: 3
  • Assyrian: 3
  • Bihar: 2
  • Caribbean Indian: 2
  • Kashmir: 2
  • Sindhi: 2
  • Sri Lankan: 2
  • Iraqi Arab: 2
  • Anglo-Indian: 1
  • Roma: 1
  • Goa: 1
  • Rajasthan: 1
  • Egyptian/Iraqi Jew: 1
  • Baloch: 1
  • Iraqi Kurd: 1
  • Georgian: 1
  • Azeri: 1
  • French/Madagascar/Indian: 1
  • Kazakh: 1
  • Ashkenazi: 1
  • Brazilian: 1
  • Mexican: 1
  • Unknown: 2

Let's try to get to hundred soon.

And yes, I am accepting FTDNA Family Finder (new Illumina chip) now.

Related Reading:

Babylonians And Assyrians; Life And Customs
The Sindhi Through the Centuries
The A to Z of the Kurds (The A to Z Guide Series)
The Tamil Genocide by Sri Lanka: The Global Failure to Protect Tamil Rights Under International Law
Egypt (Eyewitness Travel Guides)

End of March Update

Posted by on March 27, 2011 10 comments

I have a total of 67 participants in the project right now who have sent me their raw data. This is not counting those who have relatives participating and thus have to be filtered out for most analysis other than individual admixture percentages etc where I divide participants into small groups.

The following groups are represented:

  • Tamil: 11
  • Punjab: 9
  • Iran: 7
  • Bengal: 5
  • Uttar Pradesh: 4
  • Andhra Pradesh: 3
  • Kerala: 3
  • Gujarati: 3
  • Bihar: 2
  • Karnataka: 2
  • Caribbean Indian: 2
  • Kashmir: 2
  • Sri Lankan: 2
  • Maharashtra: 2
  • Iraqi Arab: 2
  • Anglo-Indian: 1
  • Roma: 1
  • Goa: 1
  • Rajasthan: 1
  • Baloch: 1
  • Sindhi: 1
  • Iraqi Kurd: 1
  • Egyptian/Iraqi Jew: 1

I need to post analyses of Tamils, Bengalis and Punjabis soon.

Related Reading:

The Sindhi Through the Centuries
The Ascendancy of the Congress in Uttar Pradesh: Class, Community and Nation in Northern India, 1920-1940 (Anthem World History)
Save the Bengal Tiger! (Wonder Pets)
Rajasthan in India (Asia Series)
The Egyptology Handbook: A Course in the Wonders of Egypt (Ologies)

Austroasiatic Dataset

Posted by on March 20, 2011 No comments

Razib pointed out the paper "Population Genetic Structure in Indian Austroasiatic speakers: The Role of Landscape Barriers and Sex-specific Admixture" by Gyaneshwer Chaubey, Mait Metspalu, Ying Choi, Reedik Mägi, Irene Gallego Romero, Pedro Soares, Mannis van Oven, Doron M. Behar, Siiri Rootsi, Georgi Hudjashov, Chandana Basu Mallick, Monika Karmin, Mari Nelis, Jüri Parik, Alla Goverdhana Reddy, Ene Metspalu, George van Driem, Yali Xue, Chris Tyler-Smith, Kumarasamy Thangaraj, Lalji Singh, Maido Remm, Martin B. Richards, Marta Mirazon Lahr, Manfred Kayser, Richard Villems and Toomas Kivisild to me 36 hours ago. And I have their dataset now.

I have been told that the data will hopefully be in the NCBI GEO database soon.

There are a total of 41 samples with 527,319 SNPs in the data. There are Bonda, Savara, Juang and Gadaba from Orissa; Santhal and Asur from Jharkand; Kharia from Chattishgarh; Ho from Bihar; Khasi and Garo from Meghalaya; and some (15) Burmese.

PS. I have created a separate page for references where I link to the papers which led to the datasets I am using.

Related Reading:

Merriam-Webster's Everyday Language Reference Set
Pocket Ref 4th Edition
Legends of the middle ages, narrated with special reference to literature and art
Asana Pranayama Mudra Bandha/2008 Fourth Revised Edition
Finding George Orwell in Burma

Another Update

Posted by on March 12, 2011 28 comments

I have a total of 51 participants in the project right now who have sent me their raw data. This is not counting three people who have relatives participating and thus have to be filtered out for most analysis other than individual admixture percentages etc where I divide participants into small groups.

The following groups are represented:

  • Punjab: 7
  • Iran: 7
  • Tamil: 6
  • Bengal: 5
  • Andhra Pradesh: 2
  • Bihar: 2
  • Karnataka: 2
  • Caribbean Indian: 2
  • Kashmir: 2
  • Uttar Pradesh: 2
  • Sri Lankan: 2
  • Kerala: 2
  • Iraqi Arab: 2
  • Anglo-Indian: 1
  • Roma: 1
  • Goa: 1
  • Rajasthan: 1
  • Baloch: 1
  • Unknown: 1
  • Egyptian/Iraqi Jew: 1
  • Maharashtra: 1

I haven't received data from any new participants for more than a week which is the longest lull since I started Harappa Ancestry Project. So go out there and get people to send me their 23andme raw data.

Also, does anyone know if there are a significant number of South Asians who have done FamilyTreeDNA's Family Finder test? Is there a good overlap of SNPs between their test and 23andme's?

We have enough Punjabis, Iranians, Tamil and Bengalis that they deserve separate analysis posts.

Related Reading:

A Rule of Property for Bengal: An Essay on the Idea of Permanent Settlement
Lost in Uttar Pradesh: New and Selected Stories
The Sri Lanka Reader: History, Culture, Politics (The World Readers)
Popular poetry of the Baloches
Roman Blood: A Novel of Ancient Rome (Novels of Ancient Rome)

Project Update

Posted by on February 20, 2011 16 comments

I have a total of 42 participants in the project right now who have sent me their raw data. This is not counting two people who have relatives participating and thus have to be filtered out for most analysis other than individual admixture percentages etc where I divide participants into small groups.

The following groups are represented:

  • Punjab: 7
  • Iran: 6
  • Tamil: 5
  • Andhra Pradesh: 2
  • Bengal: 2
  • Bihar: 2
  • Karnataka: 2
  • Caribbean Indian: 2
  • Kashmir: 2
  • Anglo-Indian: 1
  • Roma: 1
  • Goa: 1
  • Uttar Pradesh: 1
  • Sri Lankan: 1
  • Rajasthan: 1
  • Kerala: 1
  • Baloch: 1
  • Unknown: 1

The unknown is Manu Sporny who has put his genetic data in the public domain and I have drafted him into our project.

In addition, out of curiosity, I have accepted data from the following:

  • Iraqi Arab: 2
  • Egyptian/Iraqi Jew: 1

I know a bunch of you have done a lot to make this project known and gotten people to submit their data. But we really do need more participants of every ethnicity and geographic region in and around South Asia. So keep on!

I am working on K=12 admixture runs for the batches we have already done. In addition, the reference I dataset will be used for even higher values of K admixture components to see where the limit is.

Also, I am looking into doing chromosome by chromosome admixture (and other analysis). I have done some experimental runs and once I have pored over that data, I'll have something to report.

As we have seen, even with the removal of the San and Pygmy, the Africans take up 3 ancestral components and most South Asians (excepting me of course) do not have any African admixture. So I am working on a reference dataset without any Africans. I have my own take on how to do that which I'll share in the next few days.

In short, my home computer is running admixture, plink, eigensoft, etc. 24x7.

Related Reading:

Kashmir: Roots of Conflict, Paths to Peace
The Crusades Through Arab Eyes
Rajasthan (India Travel Guides)
The Coolest Startups in America (Volume 1)
The Rough Guide to Goa

Latest on Participants

Posted by on February 6, 2011 1 comment

I have a total of 31 participants in the project right now who have sent me their raw data. The following groups are represented:

  • Punjab: 7
  • Tamil: 4
  • Iran: 4
  • Andhra Pradesh: 2
  • Bengal: 2
  • Bihar: 2
  • Karnataka: 2
  • Caribbean Indian: 2
  • Anglo-Indian: 1
  • Roma: 1
  • Kashmir: 1
  • Goa: 1
  • Uttar Pradesh: 1
  • Sri Lankan: 1

Keep them coming!

I am going to get some admixture analysis on the second batch (HRP0011 to HRP0020) done this week.

Related Reading:

Factional Politics in an Indian State: The Congress Party in Uttar Pradesh
The Seven Pearls of Financial Wisdom: A Woman's Guide to Enjoying Wealth and Power
Lost in Uttar Pradesh: New and Selected Stories
Decentralised Governance and Planning in Karnataka, India
Time Out Mumbai and Goa (Time Out Guides)

Participation Update

Posted by on January 31, 2011 8 comments

I have a total of 23 participants in the project right now who have sent me their raw data. The following groups are represented:

  • Punjab: 7
  • Tamil: 4
  • Iran: 3
  • Bengal: 2
  • Andhra Pradesh: 2
  • Bihar: 1
  • Anglo-Indian: 1
  • Roma: 1
  • Karnataka: 1
  • Kashmir: 1

There is still a lot of ethnicities and regions missing. Uttar Pradesh comes to mind as the biggest one.

Related Reading:

Andhra: Webster's Timeline History, 322 BC - 2007
Understanding Iran: Everything You Need to Know, from Persia to the Islamic Republic, from Cyrus to Ahmadinejad
Short Stories from Andhra Pradesh
Menus and Memories from Punjab: Meals to Nourish Body and Soul (Hippocrene Cookbooks)
SIMPLE KEBABS AND CURRIES (BRIDGET'S ANGLO-INDIAN RECIPE BOOKS)

Participants So Far

Posted by on January 24, 2011 11 comments

While I am analyzing the data, checking for errors and making sure the results I am getting are valid, here is some information about participants till now.

So far I have got 11 participants send me their raw data. Of these eleven, ten have some South Asian ancestry.

The regions/ethnicities they cover are:

  • Punjab
  • Bengal
  • Bihar
  • Tamil Nadu
  • Telegu
  • Anglo-Indian

Of these, Punjabis are the only ones I have multiple samples of. So I definitely need more samples of the other ethnicities. And there are lots of ethnicities/regions I haven't gotten any participants in.

It would be great for this project if we got a few participants from each state/province of India and Pakistan. So if you know someone who is from our target regions and has tested with 23andme, please spread the word.

If you tested with 23andme during their Christmas sale, I am hearing that results are going to start coming in starting today.

Related Reading:

Bengal Breed Profile (Your Cat Magazine Breed Profiles)
Southeast Asia in World History (New Oxford World History)
How to Do Everything Genealogy
Lonely Planet Southeast Asia: On a Shoestring (Shoestring Travel Guide)
The Sikhs of the Punjab (The New Cambridge History of India)