Genetics
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🧵 The Harappan Genome Study: The final nail in the coffin of the Aryan Invasion Theory! A landmark study (Shinde et al., 2019) on ancient DNA from Rakhigarhi demolished AIT. Here’...
All humans share 99.9% identical DNA. So why do we always blame genetics? Here's what most people don't know: https://t.co/rT6tPCKCWA
UCs are indigenous to India. SC & OBC are genetically similar to most UCs in each region. There is little difference in them. Most STs like Austroasiatic or Tibeto-Burman tribes...
PCSK9 (Proprotein Convertase Subtilisin/Kexin Type 9) inhibitors have changed the landscape of cardiology forever. This is a Tweetorial🧵on why. And it starts in 1999, with a Fren...
🧬 Preprint 🧬 Most mutations begin as a change in only one of the two DNA strands. To see these single-strand precursors of mutations, we developed single-molecule sequencing that...
You thought traits could only be unlocked in video games. Here's how you can level up within your genetic code: https://t.co/k5KBxaQVbK
🧵AUTISM, GENES and ANTIBODIES Antibodies are proteins that the body usually makes to protect against pathogens. Antibodies are part of the adaptive immune system. If you are infec...
The First Sequencing of the Bivalent vaccines is now available for public consumption. WARNING- There are contaminating Expression vectors in the vaccines that contain antibiotic...
On seeing this Tweet I finally groked the puzzle of why Indian elites almost without exception are so obsessed with visa free travel to the West. An obsession I commented on in s...
Genetically, the closest people to the Indus Valley Civilization are Gujaratis followed by Dravidian speakers such as Nair, Bunt, Velama, Vellalar, Iyer, Reddy. I guess, so much fo...
bored and done with studying genetics, this account will prolly shift to just philosophy, sociology and modern history poasting for a while along with occasional movie/tv reviews a...
The Genetic Studies of Genius is one of the most legendary studies in all of psychology. The longest-running study of its kind, it found a surprising relationship between intelli...
Peoples of Central Asia (including the Tarim Basin & central Siberia) had a lot of ANE ancestry into the 3rd millennium BC, and also had paleo-Siberian ancestry (distantly related...
Lot of talk is made of the Indo-Europeans on here but not enough of the grandfathers of the Indo-Europeans: the Ancient North Eurasians (ANE) This is tragic, especially for us Ind...
No offence intended but South Indians seriously need to stamp out dysgenic practices such as cousin marriage and extreme-caste endogamy. It’s very harmful physiologically. https://...
After IE, the Austronesian language family is another for which a fairly good linguistic history that aligns with other material sources exists. The genetic evidence supports an or...
Hey new followers! It's been a while since I introduced myself. I grew up in the Caribbean on the island of St. Kitts. That's it right there👇 https://t.co/PVxFZmVoZ1
Interested in how to use natural #genetic #diversity to increase & secure cereal production on finite arable land w/o increasing water & fertilizer use? Read @Plants_MDPI about the...
A brief & basic review of Huntington's disease 🧵 https://t.co/EbBudGUtC8
Genetic Ancestry of Russians. It's interesting to note that European Russians can have upto 11-13% North East Asian (Uralic) ancestry easily. https://t.co/fc7caKgu0T
Not much mixing in Scandinavia with Europe in centuries before Viking Age. Lot of mixing with Balts in Gotland & British-Irish in S Sweden/Denmark during Viking Age, but they contr...
Lot of variance in Khoisan ancestry in South African Bantus - Tswana have the most (~20%), Tsonga the least (~1.5%). Khoisan ancestry is always entirely from women. https://t.co/Pt...
New post on my substack. Looking at the genetic ancestry of North-West Indians such as Jatts, Khatris, Kamboj, Gujjar, Ror and the true source of Steppe ancestry in India. https:/...
Genetic ancestry of a Chamar from the North Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. The Chamars are a traditionally non-elite dalit caste that comes under the Scheduled Caste category and w...