Addressing the claims regarding male Mediated Steppe Related Ancestry Amongst the Brahmins and the Indo Iranian Speakers of Iran And also Looking into the Possible Origins of Haplogroup R1a-M17/M198 in these populations
www.eupedia.com/ on R1a The paternal ancestry of Uttarakhand does not imitate the classical caste system of India is a Study from 2016 that goes into detail regarding both the paternal and maternal haplogroups of different groups from Uttarakhand and the Uttarakhand Brahmin Samples from this Study is 83 and 45.8% of them have R1a-M17/M198 Supplementary Figure 4 (JPG 822 kb) Ancient Migratory Events in the Middle East: New Clues from the Y-Chromosome Variation of Modern Iranians is a study from 2012 that goes into detail regarding the R1a subclades of the Indo-Iranian speakers of Iran and other groups with Iran and the R1a subclade with the highest Frequency seems to be R1a-M198/M17. now lets look into the possible origins of this specific subclade of R1a starting with a study from 2010 named Evidence that a West-East admixed population lived in the Tarim Basin as early as the early Bronze Age Table 3. Hui Zhou, Jilin University, an Author of this paper says that this branch is n...