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June Update

Posted by Zack 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.

April Update

Posted by Zack 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.

End of March Update

Posted by Zack 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.

Another Update

Posted by Zack 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.

Project Update

Posted by Zack 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.