Tests have established a direct link between the Duke of Cambridge and a woman believed to have been at least half Indian.
Prince William
According to The Times, the genetic link with India derives from Williams’s great-great-great-great-great grandmother Eliza Kewark. Scientists established the link after discovering that descendants of Eliza carried a rare strand of DNA – known as mitochondrial DNA. It can only be passed on by a mother.
University of Edinburgh genetics expert Jim Wilson, who carried out the tests, said the proof of William’s Indian roots was “unassailable”, the Independent UK reports.
This would potentially make him the first King whose bloodline is descended from India, the Independent further said.
JimSofty / June 14, 2013
” a rare strand of DNA – known as mitochondrial DNA. “
This is funny.
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Sama / June 14, 2013
OMG – why to give this that publicity. Going back to the millions of year in our past, as the DNA research clearly prove we all belong to a single family.
Now the DNA analysts would trace the maternal generations of P William to find out the truth.
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Kumara Ratnumbs / June 15, 2013
Baapre, the P.William, Cane furniture hirers of Slave Island?
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PresiDunce Bean / June 14, 2013
Tests have established a direct link between Mahinda Rajapaksa, Emperor of the Hum-Bugger-Thotta Empire and Genghis Khan, Emperor of the Mongol Empire.
According to the “Daily Noise”, the genetic link with Mongolia derives from Mahinda’s great-great-great-great-great grandmother Eve Rajapaksa (wife of Adam Rajapaksa). Scientists established the link after discovering that descendants of Eve Rajapaksa carried a rare strand of DNA – known as mitochondrial mahinda chinthana DNA. It can only be passed on by a mother.
University of Hum-Bugger-Thotta genetics expert Jim Wilson Rajapaksa, who carried out the tests, said the proof of Mahinda’s Mongolian roots was “unassailable”, the “Daily Noise” reports.
This would potentially make him the first Emperor whose bloodline is descended from Mongolia, the “Daily Noise” further said. Rupavahini and SLBC said basically the same thing, while ITN said, “Appay maha rajathuma Emperor ta Jaya way waaaa!” :)
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Kalu Nangi / June 15, 2013
Ha..ha…that’s a good one!
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Cincinattus / June 15, 2013
“University of Hum-Bugger-Thotta genetics expert Jim Wilson Rajapaksa, who carried out the tests, said the proof of Mahinda’s Mongolian roots was “unassailable”, the “Daily Noise” reports.”
ARE YOU SURE?I WAS LED TO BELIEVE THAT THE GENETICIST WAS ONE SENEVIRATNE? PERHAPS I WAS MISINFORMED.
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Sengodan. M / June 15, 2013
No wonder he is a Mongol!
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Dilan / June 15, 2013
Greatest joke heard for ages. Hih hih hih hih hih hih hih hih hih hih
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M.Sivananthan / June 15, 2013
Nice to read and laugh!
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Stupor Nad / June 17, 2013
What is nice in a laugh?
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Mahen / June 15, 2013
Mitochondrial DNA haplogroups have nucleic acid molecules that can only be passed from mother to offspring.this establishes the matrilineal link at each generation. From this mitochondrial DNA a child’s maternal ancestry can be traced down thousands of years. Similarly y chromosomal DNA is from the father’s lineage and can be used to trace the paternal link for many generations.
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Appubaba / June 15, 2013
Mahen, this reminded me of my previous work based on DNA. The fact that the size of mitochondrial genome is relatively small ~16.5 Kb, it has been much easier to focus on targeted gene regions on it. Thanks, yours brought me back to my days in the lab :)
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ONE / June 18, 2013
What they don’t mention is Henry V111 and the off-shots.
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Katmai / June 18, 2013
Mitochondrial DNA is the DNA located in organelles called mitochondria, structures within eukaryotic cells that convert the chemical energy from food into a form that cells can use, adenosine triphosphate (ATP). Most of the rest of the DNA present in eukaryotic cells can be found in the cell nucleus, and in plants, the chloroplast as well.
Hey, do I seem like a really smart guy too?
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Fairose / June 15, 2013
If you test the sri lankan, all would turn out to be dravidans except a few from the north of india.
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Appubaba / June 19, 2013
Check the data bases that have already been ready – proving that the origin of sinhalese are from Nothern India. These are facts. No need further tests. Dravidians seem to have links with aborignes too, I have read somewhere some time back.
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ONE / June 18, 2013
The richest man living in the UK and residing next to prince Charles home is Non Resident Indian Mittal the steel magnate whose business is registered in the US not UK and that is worrying the British media too.
The Indians have brushed aside the American/British military who have requested for support against China in the South China Sea cold war beginning 2014.
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shankar / June 14, 2013
Now he can join sonia and enter Indian politics due to his DNA and become one day the prime minister of india.
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Billi Raj / June 14, 2013
Deconstructing and Recololonization of India is a long overdue mechanism of the New World Order.
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Jay / June 14, 2013
“Scientists established the link after discovering that descendants of Eliza carried a rare strand of DNA – known as mitochondrial DNA. It can only be passed on by a mother.
The particular strand of DNA is only found in people from the Indian subcontinent.”
This is utter nonsense. Everyone has mitochondrial DNA. It is inherited exclusively from their mothers and can’t be passed on by fathers in normal reproduction.
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Native Vedda / June 14, 2013
manisekaran
You have a slim chance of becoming the king of the UK. Test your DNA too surprisingly you might find your ancestors might have originated from Scotland.
The Sri Lankan Tamils and Sinhalese may now have a legitimate claim on the British crown through you.
Everything come from India – Goodness Gracious Me.
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Pinyin / June 15, 2013
And the ‘Good Gracious Me’ from China.
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manisekaran thangavelu / June 15, 2013
Why pulling me? I am content as Tamil , I will pray for any number of birth as Tamil than to be anyone else.
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Native Vedda / June 16, 2013
manisekaran thangavelu
“I will pray for any number of birth as Tamil than to be anyone else.”
So you would like to remain stupid for any number of birth similar to your Sinhalese brethren.
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manisekaran thangavelu / June 16, 2013
@Native Veddha,
Sorry for your limited knowledge about Tamils; Please visit kallanai in Trichy and Rajaraja temple or Maudrai meenakshi Amman temple or please reach out to me, I show you all IT companies in chennai and Bangalore or IIT’s and Anna university and IIM trichy,or DRDO, ISRO. Hopefully it widens your knowledge horizon after that about Tamil.( of course if you are willing to visit India)
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Native Vedda / June 16, 2013
manisekaran
“( of course if you are willing to visit India)”
It depends on how your indecent visa officers and immigration authorities treat us at your airports.
It also depends how your Gundas would treat me at the Thanjavur Peria Temple. If I chose to shave my head for reasons of whether or fashion and wear saffron clothes I am not sure how would your guardians of Tamils treat me at the temple or at the railway station.
Would you assure me that the temples you mentioned in your comment were indeed built without any slave labour. My Sinhala friends tell me that the Peria Temple was built with the wealth that was plundered from this island.
Slavery and plunder were the founding principles of these huge temples yet you would like me to share glory, instead you ought to be ashamed of your ancestors.
Please arrange for compensation to the descendants of those slaves and the victims of Chola plunder in this island.
” Please visit kallanai in Trichy”
According to Sinhala traditions Karikalan’s irrigation dam was built by Sinhala slaves and by Aryan/Sinhala engineers from this island. Could you also arrange for compensation and pay to the descendants of Sinhala slaves.
What is great about DRDO and ISRO, both using 50 years old technology and mostly manned by North Indians or Keralites?
I would like to know as to what had happened to Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft which was supposed to circle moon. Even your eminent scientists couldn’t figure out where this rocket had gone.
Did ISRO really launch this spacecraft?
There is nothing great about Tamils in India or Sri Lanka. What is great about Tamils is that they share their stupid gene with their stupid Sinhalese brethren. Past history shows most of the times they mimicked each other.
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manisekaran thangavelu / June 17, 2013
Oh NV , I thought you are sensible, but are you just a person with the mind-set of generalizing everything?
If you are struck up so myopic, neither I have a pair of spectacles nor i have microscope to show you a magnified vision for your minuscule mindset.
Please pleasantly categorize me stupid, no issues.
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StoneyBund / June 17, 2013
Vedus Natis, split the word Kallanai = Kalla+Nai = “Thief the Dog”.
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Native Vedda / June 18, 2013
manisekaran
You haven’t answered my queries. To make it easy I copy past it here:
“I would like to know as to what had happened to Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft which was supposed to circle moon. Even your eminent scientists couldn’t figure out where this rocket had gone.
Did ISRO really launch this spacecraft?”
Let us have some answers, if you don’t mind.
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Berec / June 17, 2013
Like Eveready’s Cat & the 9.
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M.Sivananthan / June 15, 2013
You better think why India became an atraction for all from pre-historic times!
Indian Hindus invented the Numeral System, The Royal System,Astrology and many more. These are all the products of Ganges Valley Civilization. That is the oldest civilization in the world! The modern values are based on the Indian old systems!
Sinhalese and Tamils never had any ideas of Royals.
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Native Vedda / June 16, 2013
M.Sivananthan
“Sinhalese and Tamils never had any ideas of Royals.”
Were both republicans?
“That is the oldest civilization in the world!”
So you are not a Harappan.
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Rama / June 14, 2013
thank god he has indian heritage. if he has sinhala heritage then his position will become untenable due to black colour. can anyone tell me where you will find the ugliest people in one place.
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ABCD / June 14, 2013
The only reason why you are not so black is because your [Edited out]
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Rama / June 15, 2013
sinhala cricket team.
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Safa / June 14, 2013
Maybe our king can claim to be the last king of Scotland, taking a cue from Idi Amin. Anyway since man seems to have originated in Africa we have something in common with Idi Amin and now with Prince William. How thrilling. All this time people were claiming to have aryan blood and now it is seems that they originated in Bengal.
“Studies looking at the origin of the Sinhalese have been contradictory. Older studies suggest a predominantly Tamil origin followed by a significant Bengali contribution with no North Western Indian contribution.[1][2] While modern studies point towards a predominantly Bengali contribution and a minor Tamil and North Western Indian contribution.[3][4][5]
All studies agree however, that the there is a significant relationship between the Sinhalese and the Tamil and Bengali. This is also supported by a genetic distance study, which showed low differences in genetic distance between the Sinhalese and the Tamil, Keralite and Bengali volunteers.[3]”
So what is all this fuss about?
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Umoja / June 17, 2013
I want you to give respect to my baba Aidee Ameen, the impeccable leader that Uganda and Africa ever produced.
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Amarasiri / June 15, 2013
Hey All Get the Facts,
1. Fathers Y Chromosome goes from Father to Sun, and can be traced back to East Africa 70,000 years ago, or about 2,000 generations ago.
https://genographic.nationalgeographic.com/
So the Kings and Queens of England are African. Other places as well, including the Rajapaksas, high an low caste Tamils,. Sinhalese , Hindus etc etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_mitochondrial_DNA_haplogroup
2. The mothers line is traced from the mitochondrial DNA,back to Africa as well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_genealogy
3, Any defects or mutations can be traced back. If the data is true, this may be what they have done with Pronce Williams.
One thing, if the data is repeatable, it does not lie, unlike the politicians and their shills.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genographic_Project
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Mangosoothu / June 15, 2013
Q2: Is it Kabila’s Congo?
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Rambutan Pilose / June 15, 2013
Father’s Y goes to the Ra, and Mother’s W chromosome goes to Bendis.
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Amarasiri / June 15, 2013
People were Africans, Arabians and Southern Indians, except the Africans.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15565654
The study suggests early people crossed the Bab-el-Mandeb straits into Arabia
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A six-year effort to map the genetic patterns of humankind appears to confirm that early people first left Africa by crossing into Arabia.
Ancestors of modern people in Europe, Asia and Oceania migrated along a southern route, not a northern route through Egypt as some had supposed.
The results from the Genographic Project are published in the journal Molecular Biology and Evolution.
It suggests an important role for South Asia in the peopling of the world.
The ancestors of present-day non-African people left their ancestral homeland some 70,000 years ago.
The researchers found that Indian populations had more genetic diversity – which gives an indication of the age of a population – than either Europeans or East Asians.
This supports the idea that pioneering settlers followed a southern coastal route as they populated east Asia and continued into Oceania.
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Native Vedda / June 16, 2013
Amarasiri
Thanks for your information.
My elders are aware of this paper. According to them a news item in Hindunet alerted them about this article.
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Liguria / June 17, 2013
I understand that you always absorb knowledge from the elders when it comes to spaghetti pick science.
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K.A Sumanasekera / June 15, 2013
How good is this bit of Mitochondrin.?.
One of our own to be the MC for the GHOGM that Cameron and Harper didn’t want us to have.
Not forgetting our own Westminister Kid and his Elite alliance.
The Govt should supply little flags with the Prince to all our school kids in the South and make it a memorable occassion for this soon to be the young King
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JimSofty / June 15, 2013
If there is mitochondrin, it should be a protein. this is mitochondria.
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abhaya / June 15, 2013
who gives a crap ..
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Pilip the Greek / June 15, 2013
Diana had a mutual friendship with a Pakistani doctor prior to Dodi.
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Fair N Square / June 17, 2013
Diana even went to Pakistan with Jemima Khan( ex wife of Imran Khan) asking the parents of the Cardiologist permission to get married to him. He used to go to the Buckingham Palace hidden in the trunk of Late Diana’s car… She was looking for love in all the wrong places COZ Charles the idiot was seeking TRUE love from Parker Bowles
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Bawdy Brunch / June 17, 2013
But, Parker had the balls to crush the eggs of Al-Diana and caress the Charles’ skittle.
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G. Pandith / June 15, 2013
PresiDunce Bean:
There is one error in what you have stated. The University of Hum-Bugger-Thotta genetics expert who carried out the tests, is not Jim Wilson Rajapaksa, but Eliyantha White Rajapaksa.
Rama:
This is what George Bernard Shaw had said after he visited Ceylon:
“I was convinced that the Ceylon is the cradle of the human race, because everybody there looks an original. All the other nations are obviously mass-produced.”
Then again he has said:
“If I were not an Irishman, I would have chosen to be a Ceylonese.”
These speak volumes. You will have to look for some other place other than Sri Lanka to find out where ugliest people are in one place.
Safa:
“Link with India” does not mean as per say the present day India but the entire Indian Sub Continent. Bengali’s too are considered of Aryan stock. If we are to analyse blood in ethnic groups, one may not find a single individual with “pure” blood of one ethnic group or the other. All are a concoctions of one sort or the other. So to look for pure Tamil blood or Sinhala blood or Arab blood, etc are of silly exercises. Mind you, what ever religion you are born to, life is a result of “accident of birth.”
There are innumerable examples for that.
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Native Vedda / June 15, 2013
G. Pandith
“So to look for pure Tamil blood or Sinhala blood or Arab blood, etc are of silly exercises.”
Well according to Tamil Pandiths they are from Dravidian stock. According to them their language is so ancient even the first ape spoke Tamil and practiced Tamil Saivaism.
According to Sinhala/Buddhist Pandiths they are from Aryan stock. According to them their language and culture is so ancient even the first ape spoke Sinhala and practiced Sinhala/Buddhism.
What do you have to say about their observation?
Are there any evidences to support both claims?
I am confused.
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Amarasiri / June 16, 2013
Native Veddha, you say:
“What do you have to say about their observation?
Are there any evidences to support both claims?
I am confused.”
Let me help you and guide you a bit as to where you may find answers. This is a long paper. You need to go to the link to read the full paper and maps. Unfortunately, no data gathered fronm Sri Lanka, eddahs, Yakkas, Nagas, Rakshayas and the so0called Bengali-Orissa Sinhala.
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0050269
Population Differentiation of Southern Indian Male Lineages Correlates with Agricultural Expansions Predating the Caste System
Abstract
Previous studies that pooled Indian populations from a wide variety of geographical locations, have obtained contradictory conclusions about the processes of the establishment of the Varna caste system and its genetic impact on the origins and demographic histories of Indian populations. To further investigate these questions we took advantage that both Y chromosome and caste designation are paternally inherited, and genotyped 1,680 Y chromosomes representing 12 tribal and 19 non-tribal (caste) endogamous populations from the predominantly Dravidian-speaking Tamil Nadu state in the southernmost part of India. Tribes and castes were both characterized by an overwhelming proportion of putatively Indian autochthonous Y-chromosomal haplogroups (H-M69, F-M89, R1a1-M17, L1-M27, R2-M124, and C5-M356; 81% combined) with a shared genetic heritage dating back to the late Pleistocene (10–30 Kya), suggesting that more recent Holocene migrations from western Eurasia contributed <20% of the male lineages. We found strong evidence for genetic structure, associated primarily with the current mode of subsistence. Coalescence analysis suggested that the social stratification was established 4–6 Kya and there was little admixture during the last 3 Kya, implying a minimal genetic impact of the Varna (caste) system from the historically-documented Brahmin migrations into the area. In contrast, the overall Y-chromosomal patterns, the time depth of population diversifications and the period of differentiation were best explained by the emergence of agricultural technology in South Asia. These results highlight the utility of detailed local genetic studies within India, without prior assumptions about the importance of Varna rank status for population grouping, to obtain new insights into the relative influences of past demographic events for the population structure of the whole of modern India.
Citation: ArunKumar G, Soria-Hernanz DF, Kavitha VJ, Arun VS, Syama A, et al. (2012) Population Differentiation of Southern Indian Male Lineages Correlates with Agricultural Expansions Predating the Caste System. PLoS ONE 7(11): e50269. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0050269
Editor: Manfred Kayser, Erasmus University Medical Center, The Netherlands
Received: April 18, 2012; Accepted: October 22, 2012; Published: November 28, 2012
Introduction
Contemporary Indian populations exhibit a high cultural, morphological, and linguistic diversity, as well as some of the highest genetic diversities among continental populations after Africa [1], [2]. Indian populations are broadly classified into two categories: ‘tribal’ and ‘non-tribal’ groups [3]. Tribal groups, constituting 8% of the Indian population, are characterized by traditional modes of subsistence such as hunting and gathering, foraging and seasonal agriculture of various kinds [2], [3]. In contrast, most other Indians fall into non-tribal categories, many of them classified as castes under the Hindu Varna (Color caste) system which groups caste populations, primarily on occupation, into Brahmin (priestly class), Kshatriya (warrior and artisan), Vyasa (merchant), Shudra (unskilled labor) and the most recently added fifth class, Panchama, the scheduled castes of India [2], [3]. Generally, both non-tribal and tribal populations employ a patrilineal caste endogamy. This practice, together with the male-specific genetic transmission of the non-recombining portion of the Y-chromosome (NRY), provides a unique opportunity to study the impact of historical demographic processes and the social structure on the gene pool of India.
The distribution of deep-rooted Indian-specific Y-chromosomal and mitochondrial lineages suggests an initial settlement of modern humans in the subcontinent from the early out-of-Africa migration [4], [5], [6], [7], [8], [9]. The greater genetic isolation of many tribal groups and their differences in Y-chromosomal haplogroup (HG) lineages compared to non-tribal groups, have generally been interpreted as evidence of tribes being direct descendants of the earliest Indian settlers [2], [10], [11], [12], [13]. Moreover, these tribe-caste genetic differences have been attributed to the establishment of the Hindu Varna system that has been maintained for millennia since both Y chromosome and caste designation are paternally inherited. However, the origin of caste system in India is still a controversial subject [8], [14], [15], [16], and there are two main schools of thought about it. First, demic diffusion models propose an expansion of Indo-European (IE) speakers 3 Kya (thousand years ago) from Central Asia [10], [17], [18], [19], [20], [21], [22]. Alternatively, other models propose the origin of caste as the result of cultural diffusion and/or autochthonous demographic processes without any major genetic influx from outside India [6], [7], [16], [23]. Overall, the genetic impact and mode of establishment of the caste system, the extent of a common indigenous Pleistocene (10 Kya to 30 Kya) genetic heritage and the degree of admixture from West Eurasian Holocene (10 Kya) migrations and their level of impact on the tribal and non-tribal groups from India, remain unresolved [5], [6], [7], [10], [16].
Go to the link read the full paper.
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M.Sivananthan / June 15, 2013
Bengalis never claim or identifid as ARYAN.
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Pondra Pondra Pocchis / June 17, 2013
Unfortunately, you are not born out of them, had it so, you will hail to be Aryadi Arya Arya Ragunatha Mankudi Sivanathaperuman Sahib of Bongaldish.
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M.Sivananthan / June 22, 2013
You are wrong. My name is as follows.. Kshatriya kulotpava Nanthi Gothra sri sri Pallava raja mahendra varma vamshi Sivananthan.
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Pugnate ad Finem / June 17, 2013
Life is the result of an accident of coitus, untamed by a latex.
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Chaura NGO / June 15, 2013
Ancestry linked to Jayalalitha ??? or was it Hillary’s ancestory ?
[Edited out]
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M F Rasheed / June 15, 2013
All are bloody lies. Just published to evaluate public response.
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Rama / June 15, 2013
britain is grateful to the person who killed diana before she bore a baby from a muslim arab or muslim porkistani. if she gave birth to a muslim baby , william would have a half muslim brother or sister. that’s awful.
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Fair N Square / June 17, 2013
BBS in a RAMA robe?
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Don Quixote / June 17, 2013
Motherrrrr Yindia rules the waves !
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Amarasiri / June 17, 2013
Mother Indians and British came from Africa.
Africa rules the World.
People were Africans, Arabians and Southern Indians, except the Africans.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15565654
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Seismic Ancestors / June 17, 2013
India was Pangea prior to the Himachal collision, the Trincomallee to Dondra-Head plate lies roughly along the lines of Mahaweli to Walawe to South-East in the Austral Plate. So the South-East Lanka was already assimilated to be Aborigine in origin and identity. The North and the North-West is said to be laid intact probably to the Indian plate.
Have we heard of any Antarctican Eskimoes?
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K.A Sumanasekera / June 18, 2013
Don’t the real Indians come from Balangoda?.
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Native Vedda / June 18, 2013
K.A Sumanasekera
“Don’t the real Indians come from Balangoda?.”
The Balangoda man was my ancestor.
The Godayas, Tamils and Sinhalese were mostly from Tamilnadu and Bihar.
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JS Sloan / June 19, 2013
A few years ago there was a report that William’s father, Prince Charles, was distantly related to Vlad Dracul, the historical person that Bram Stoker based his character Dracula on. Given the royal family’s thirst for fame and fortune I think the possibility that they are descended from a vampire is more likely.
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Thondamanaru / June 27, 2013
Oh !!!!!!!!!!! Then he must be connected to the Indian Vaikos, Seemens, and the likes……….
Trouble for SL.
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