Discover the genetic origins of the people of India, including the ancient ANI and ASI populations, and the impact of caste.

Several misconceptions exist surrounding Indian ethnogenesis and ancestry, including a strict difference between South and North Indians, the “Aryan Invasion,” the Indus Valley Civilization ...

South Asian Hunter-Gatherers (AASI - Ancient Ancestral South Indians): These are the earliest known inhabitants of the Indian subcontinent, whose presence dates back at least 50,000 years.

Scientists sequenced the genomes of 2,762 individuals across India, revealing the country’s unique ancestral makeup and a wealth of previously undocumented disease-related gene variants. The ...

We find that people entering from Goa would soon become indistinguishable from the original Ancestral South Indian population. We therefore focus on entry from Orissa. On simulating the movement of ...