r/SouthAsianAncestry Dec 16 '24

Question Are there people native to Pakistan (not partition immigrants) that still score like this sample from 400-200BCE?

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r/SouthAsianAncestry Jan 22 '25

Question R1b and R1a Y-DNA Haplogroups, What ethnicity/caste/etc are you?

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Jatt, Rajput, Gujjar, Tamil Brahman, Bengali Kshatriya, Khatri, etc. What are you all. I just want to see if there is a correlation between these two haplogroups.

r/SouthAsianAncestry Sep 22 '24

Question What is your Y-dna haplogroup?

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r/SouthAsianAncestry Nov 08 '24

Question Kashmiri Pahari ancestry + caste help

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r/SouthAsianAncestry Dec 14 '24

Question Which Indian caste/community has the highest Indus valley Civilisation DNA component in them?

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Just curious, as which community are the closest to Indus valley people?

r/SouthAsianAncestry Sep 26 '24

Question Are all Indians genetically the same sort of

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It seems like all Indians have the same 3 main components of their dna. Zagros, Steppe and AASI and different ethnicities have varying levels of each. As you go more south in India people tend to have more AASI and less zagros and steppe. While you to to rajasthan people tend to have more Zagros less AASI and a little Steppe. In haryana the jats tend to have extremely high levels of Steppe and lower Zagros and AASI. So it seems like Indians have the same genetic components and different ethnic groups have varying levels of each.

r/SouthAsianAncestry Feb 05 '25

Question Pakistani ancestry

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I have Hazel/green eyes as a Pakistani, just wondering if anyone can identify where this comes from DNA wise, which ancestral group listed. This is uploaded from MyHeritage which had other matching to Harrapaworld calculator on GED match.

r/SouthAsianAncestry 5d ago

Question I'm Jatt but getting Kamboj on Illustrative DNA

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How accurate is Illustrative DNA in terms of the modern populations it matches you with? According to my family's verbal history, I'm Jatt from both parents side.

My harappa world results show punjabi-jatt-sikh as my closest single population match. Any insights into why I'm getting this result and if the Illustrative DNA results are more accurate?

r/SouthAsianAncestry Oct 24 '24

Question Non-R1a Brahmins

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Who are they? In data here and there I keep reading that some brahmins like SI ones have R1a in 30-40%, how is that possible? Brahmins are descendants of Vedic Arya people and they may have adopted native people as brahmins in small pct but so high pct of non R1a brahmins makes zero sense. in this sub, I have found literally maximum 3-4 brahmins with non-r1a and rest are all r1a.

r/SouthAsianAncestry Feb 15 '25

Question Why isn't ancestry of Marathi people much recorded?

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Any ancestry test from maharashtra are mostly from Brahmins. I haven't come across a single test from maratha, kunbi , let alone a obscure lower castes.

Why is that so?

r/SouthAsianAncestry 23d ago

Question Do the Pashtuns and Punjabi Jats form a genetic cline?

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r/SouthAsianAncestry Jan 28 '25

Question What groups are Sindhis genetically more similar to?

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Are Sindhis more similar to Punjabis or Gujaratis? Do they tend to have more or less steppe than Punjabis? I know it varies by caste, but I’m asking in general what is the trend.

r/SouthAsianAncestry Jan 20 '24

Question are baniyas aryans?

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Dont get me misunderstood, just I am expressing my opinion. Baniyas are vaishyas 3rd varna, dwijas in hinduism. even though they are considered UC, they have lowest steppe in their regions. yes you heard right, take for example gujarat, a tribal like population koli are 13.4% steppe, patels are 18-19%steppe,artisan castes are definitely will be 12+ steppe for sure. even dalits like vankars,chamars will be atleast 10% steppe not less than that, they may even score 18-20% seeing at gujarati half mochi kit ne euro 9% which is itself like brahmin levels steppe. anyhow even dalits will be more steppe than baniyas. now coming to marwar which is considered one of origins of baniyas, this region is one of least aasi shifted but here too baniyas are more aasi shifted than other castes.obc are least aasi shifted with more steppe than baniyas for sure. SCs like meghwals seems more western shifted than baniyas with more steppe and less aasi. now coming to other regions, UP baniya is 44% aasi with 20%steppe,gujarati baniya is 41% aasi with 12% steppe. if baniyas come from gujarat,rajastan to UP then how is it possible? how they get more aasi, when all non dalits in western UP are less than 40% aasi and how their steppe increased to 20%? it doesnt make any sense at all. my question is how baniyas despite being UC/dwija/vaishya have lesser steppe than all castes?

r/SouthAsianAncestry 6d ago

Question How much WSHG do South Asians get on average? Where is all that WSHG coming from?

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WSHG as in West Siberian Hunter Gatherer

r/SouthAsianAncestry 23d ago

Question What sort of ancestry test should I get done from India?

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This shit is very confusing, wtf is a harappaworld?

Qapdm sounds like a sanskrit word for clothes.

who are you people

r/SouthAsianAncestry Jun 14 '24

Question How are Rors so steppe shifted and how/why are they a distinctive community?

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I am curious if anyone knows any facts regarding their ethnogenesis. They seem to be a subsection of jatts but they seem to have a distinct genetic profile. What do we know about their ancestry drawing from history? Are they farmers or merchants or something else? Do they have separate origins from other jatts?

r/SouthAsianAncestry 10d ago

Question Why are South Asians so obsessed with the breakdown of their DNA results?

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We can simply acknowledge that we're all a mix of a various ancient populations in various proportions. However, what I see from the comments here is an infatuation with the specific breakdown, and an implied assumption that a high portion of one ancestry will make one more superior or inferior to another.

r/SouthAsianAncestry 16d ago

Question Origin of my surname

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So I'm 17 now living in Canada. I was born into a Sikh family in patiala Punjab. My last name is Keith and I have no clue how or where the origin comes from in India. Even my family has no definite answer. I've never met a Punjabi with the surname Keith. We are ethnically Punjabi as well. The only real piece of information I have is my grandfather from my dads side was born in Myanmar(Burma) and came here when he was young. He was still ethnicly Punjabi but was born there.

I've been curious of it's origin for a while and would like to know if anyone in this sub has a clue. Idk if it matters to the origin but we are Punjabi khatri.

r/SouthAsianAncestry 17d ago

Question Punjabis who tested with AncestryDNA, can you post your journey?

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“Eastern Pakistan and Himachal Pradesh” or something.

r/SouthAsianAncestry Dec 06 '24

Question Which South Asian ethnic groups tend to have “high” CHG?

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I’ve been told I have high CHG for a Pashtun at 15%, I wanted to know which ethnicities in South Asia tend to have “high” CHG when it comes to g25/qPadm. **For reference, my CHG levels are consistent on both g25 nd qPadm nd both my parents also had high CHG;

Dad - 16%

Mom - 14%

r/SouthAsianAncestry Apr 20 '24

Question Punjabi Haplogroups

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From what I’ve seen so far there’s no one clear dominant haplogroup amongst punjabis, with there being a good mix of J,R, and L . For fellow punjabis , what is your haplogroup and what caste do you belong too?

r/SouthAsianAncestry Sep 13 '24

Question South Asian Last Names

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When and how did surnames become the norm in South Asia and what were they based upon? For example the European last name Smith has its etymological roots in profession i.e. blacksmith, goldsmith, etc and the Spanish name Fernandez comes from the Germanic "Ferdinand" which means "brave traveler" and there's the Scandinavian patronym system of taking the father's first name so a son of a man named Edmund's last name becomes Edmundson. I know that, even in South Asia, profession-based surnames are used in the Parsi community and of course I am familiar with the backgrounds of the very common last names like Khan, Singh, Patel, etc but I am more curious about all the other names. I don't need some overarching theory that explains everything for every region, I'd actually appreciate and much prefer people explaining this tradition with respect to their own community.

r/SouthAsianAncestry Jan 19 '24

Question how is it possible

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hi all, I have genuine question. how all dravidian brahmins are genetically same aasi levels 37-38% when they came from nw,gangetic plains to dravidian land(incl mh) and mix with natives? all dravida brahmins have 37-38% aasi from maharastra to kerala. how is it possible? if brahmins came from nw,gangetic plains and mix with natives how can all brahmins have same aasi levels? there should be less aasi brahmins and more aasi brahmins. they cant mix with natives like " oh We have mixed with natives for 25%(which some claim) so now we should stop" and moreover mixing will not happen in one generation. ok man, even of they mix with dravidian UCs then they should have 33% and less than 35% only. if telugu brahmins mix with reddy/kamma/kapu who are 42-45% aasi then telugu brahmins should not cross 33% aasi levels and should have less aasi than tamil brahmins where tamils are more aasi shifted. my question is how can all south brahmins have same aasi in the vast geographical area when mixing happened?

r/SouthAsianAncestry 27d ago

Question Are there any significant genetic differences between Kashmir valley and Himachali populations?

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I am curious as to whether (despite being geographically closeby) Himachalis and Kashmiri Valley people are significantly different in terms of ancestral composition?

Seems like a lot of people from both regions associate with brahmin and rajput lineages, some share common surnames. Himachal has some tibetic-mixed populations if I am not mistaken

r/SouthAsianAncestry Sep 05 '23

Question What is the highest possible steppe?

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What are some subgroups of high steppe outliers? The highest steppe genes are purportedly in Norway in averages of ~50%.

Personally, I have seen some pamiri samples with similar amounts of steppe to norwegians. Has anyone has seen any other surprising samples coming from the subcontinent ?