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[W.G.Ewald]

 

[bennedose]

As do lots of North Indians. I found out that I belong to Haplogroup R1a1.This probably is also the case with most North Indians. M17,the defining marker of haplogroup R1a1 arose about 10-15,000 years ago to a man born in Ukraine or Southern Russia.His descendents - to-days Indo-Europeans eventually spread out as far afield as Northen India and Iceland.To-day almost 40% of the men living from the Czech Republic to Siberia and South throught Central Asia ,Eastern Iran,and North India carry the M17 marker.Go figure!!

R1a1 M17 possibly originated in Gujarat and is found among almost all Indians, not just north Indians. It is most frequent in the extreme north and central India.

The reddish-brown inset in the image below shows that the oldest examples (indicating where the gene first appeared by mutation) of R1a1 M 17 are in the Gujarat region.
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