DBT-CDFD study on genetic affinities of Gujjar and Ladakhi populations
New Delhi, Aug 13 (India Science Wire): The Union Territories of Jammu and Kashmir
(J&K) and Ladakh in North India with its wide variety of landscape, is a congruence of
several languages and cultural practices. The region is believed to have served as a corridor
for ancient human migrations between the Indian subcontinent and North-East Asia, Eurasia
and Africa.
The populations in the region offer a unique opportunity to investigate the past
anthropological and demographic events which might have shaped the extant human
population diversity. In a new study, scientists at the Department of Biotechnology’s Centre
for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics (DBT-CDFD) have sought to decipher the genetic
diversity encompassed by Gujjars from the Jammu region of J&...








