What is it about?
The present data showed that Raji and Buxa community were an ancestral population and Jaunsari, Tharu and Bhotia were diverged latter from Buxa community. The present study is an effort to generate a basic gene frequency distribution data at eight polymorphic Alu loci among five autochthonous groups of Uttarakhand, india
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Why is it important?
Regarding origin, the Rajis were descendants of prehistoric Kiratas, who were comparatively early settlers of this region than the Nagas and Khasas (Rastogi, 2015). Kiratas were the first to arrive India, in course of time, they were uprooted and their few descendants remained in Kumaun and Nepal (Atkinson, 1973). Presently, Raji’s are found both in India and Nepal, the frequency of Raji population was found more in Nepal than in India (Bisht & Bankoti, 2004).
Perspectives
The present study, for the first time, made an attempt to analyse eight Alu insertion polymorphisms in five tribal population of Uttarakhand to address the following questions: (a) Is entire tribal belt genetically heterogeneous? (b) Does genetic differentiation correlates with cultural differentiation? (c) Do geographic boundaries demonstrably influence patterns of genetic variation and differentiation in the tribal belt
DR. Harashawaradhana Harashawaradhana
Anthropological Survey of India
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This page is a summary of: Genetic Diversity and Affinity Among Five Tibeto-Burman Tribal Populations of Northern India: A Study on Eight Alu Markers, June 2019, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/2277436x19845101.
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