Rattibha

Aryāṃśa

9 Tweets 449 reads Feb 19, 2023

Genetic Profile of a Kanyakubja Brahmin from Varanasi.
Indus Valley = 43.5%
Steppe MLBA (Uzbekistan) = 32.5%
Ancestral Indian/Andaman = 24%
These are the private results of a good friend of mine @chariotcel modeled with qpAdm.
His haplogroup is R1a-Z93 > R-L657 > R-Y7.

@chariotcel As I told him before he got tested, he will have 28-30% Sintashta ancestry (he is 31% pure Sintashta). I wanted him to get tested because no legitimate high quality UP Brahmin samples of known lineage exist and this is a darkspot as most Brahmins who get tested are South Indian.

But anyways, this does confirm the fact that bonafide UP Brahmins have the highest Steppe ancestry in Indian subcontinent (including Afghanistan) along with some Hindu Jats/Rors.

Just to be clear, this isn't a "UC" thing, it's only a Gangetic Brahmin thing. No one except Gangetic Brahmins scores such high Steppe apart from the known exception of some Hindu Jats.
Gangetic Rajputs, Baniyas, Kayasthas etc don't have as high Steppe.

This probably confirms the fact that Gangetic Brahmins are direct descendants of Painted Grey Ware Vedic Aryans, and have stayed extremley endogamous for 2500 plus years.
Many Gujarati Brahmins also show similar ancestral profile though.

It's crazy to me that many Tiwari Brahmins from Chattisgarh have more Aryan DNA than huge bunch of Pashtuns from Afghanistan and almost double the Aryan DNA of many Persians from Iran.
This is what 2500+ years of a strict caste system looks like.

Here is the file of the different runs.
allsnps: YES
rightgroups: Mbuti, WSHG, EHG, CHG, Xiaohe_BA, IranN, TurkeyN, Tianyuan/Onge, ShamankaEN, IronGates, JordanPPNB
(330k snps used which is decent)
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For those curious, here is his HarappaWorld. High NE Euro as expected with higher than usualy Med.