Tuesday 27 September 2022

Haplogroups of the Swat Indians

 Here's a list of all the haplogroups found in the SPGT samples, date and culture specific. 


Now, keep in mind that R1a, I2a and Q1a are the likely Steppe haplogroups here. Out of a total of 69 samples, we have 7 R1a, 2 I2a and 1 Q1a.  R1a is the 4th most common lineage. However, a lot of this R1a is from the medieval period, so if we remove that we get a total of 4/63 R1a + 2/63 I2a + 1/63 Q1a. This gives a total of 7 Steppe haplogroups for a total of 11% of the Y-DNA of SPGT likely coming from Steppe MLBA. It's interesting to note the presence of I2a for this is a European Hunter Gatherer haplogroup that almost guarantees that SPGT was mixed with Steppe_MLBA.

The most common lineages are L1a (13), R2a (10) and E1b1b1b2 (8) for a total of 31/63 or 49% of the SPGT samples. The most common lineage was L1a/L1 for a total of 14/63 samples or 22% of Y-DNA. 

L1a, R2a and E1b1b are all likely Indus Valley lineages.

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