Allele Frequencies of 15 AmpFISTR Identifiler loci in the Nepalese population

Genetic Diversity in Gorkhas: an Autosomal STR Study

“…The Nei’s D A distance matrix is presented in Table 3. Geographically close Gorkha population (present study) and those from Nepal819 showed the minimum distance value reflecting closeness. Phylogenetic trees established with the genetic distance matrix constructed with allele frequency information of 15 STR markers showed clustering of the Gorkhas with the population from Nepal19, Kathmandu10 and other Tibeto-Burman linguistic phyla as one group while the lowlander Indian population formed a separate cluster (Fig.…”

“…1). Four separate aggregates were evident in PCA plot: Indian lowlanders comprising Bhils and Tamils were placed in the upper right quadrant, Indian lowlanders comprising Brahmins, Komatis and Rajus were placed in the lower right quadrant, Gorkhas of present study were placed in the upper left quadrant along with Nepalese8, Kathmandu10, Nepal19 as well as with Korean18 and Chinese20 population. It is worthwhile to mention here that low bootstrap value between Gorkhas and Nepalese was observed in the phylogenetic tree (Fig.…”

“…Locus-wise comparison of allele frequencies and pair wise Fst p value is shown in Table 2 . The pair wise Fst values showed significant similarity at all 15 loci with Nepal population 19 and at 14 loci with Nepalese population 8 , Tibeto-Burman speaking Tamang 10 and Indo-European (Nepali) speaking people from Kathmandu 10 ( Supplementary Table 1 ). Allele frequencies at 11 out of the 15 loci in the Gorkhas were statistically similar to the Tibetan general population 10 .…”

“…Phylogenetic analysis based on allelic frequencies was performed to investigate genetic relationship of the studied population with the neighboring and Indian lowlander population 8 9 10 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 using a set of 15 STR loci. Fst values ranged from (−) 0.00645 to 0.21675 ( Supplementary Table 1 ).…”

Genetic polymorphism and phylogenetic analysis of 15 autosomal STR markers in the Santal indigenous population of Bangladesh

“…For inter-population comparison, four reference population were selected from Bangladesh, twenty from India, one from Pakistan, one from Nepal, one from China, and one from Uganda. The selected populations and sample size were as follows: Santal (n= 132), Dinajpur-Bangladesh; Bengali (n=595), Dhaka-Bangladesh 6 ; Chakma (n=113), Tripura (n=83), and Marma (n=83), Chittagong Hill Tracts-Bangladesh 7 ; Karmali (n=102), Kora (n=118), Maheli (n=98) and Lodha (n=198), Mahishya (n=120), Bauri (n=108) and Namasudra (n=110), Rajbanshi (n=91), Paliya (n=107) and Dhimal (n=66), West-Bengal India8- [8][9][10] ; Munda (n=68), Jharkhand-India 11 ; Bhil (n=297), Gujarat-India 12 ; Gond (n=89) and Brahmin (n=110), Madhya Pradesh-India 13 ; Adi Pasi (n=406), Aarunachal Pradesh-India 14 ; Balmiki (n=62), Punjab-India 15 ; Mahadev Koli (n=65), Maharashtra-India 15 ; Iyengar (n=67), Kurumans, (n=67) and Tamil (n=272), Tamilnadu-India [15][16] ; Nepalese (n=233), Nepal 17 ; Sindhi (n=181), Sindh-Pakistan 18 ; Han (n=208), Henan-central China 19 ; and Karimojong (n=218), Karamoja-Uganda 20 .…”