Actually, that hasn't been proven. I'm not sure what Inquiring Mind has posted on anthroscape but they're definitely not descendants of Punjabis or Jatts/Rajputs as he likes to claim. All the other anthropology websites (i.e. forumbiodversity, anthrocivitas, etc.) will say this. It's more likely they're outcasts from Central India but there really hasn't been any confirmation on their origins.
Anyways, I warned you guys he was a troll. Any of the moderators can google Inquiring Mind/troll and see it. He has no interest in Pakistani defenses but is here to pretend Pakistanis, Indians, etc. will accept him as one of their own. On most other forums, he is always "Aryan" this and that and suggesting gypsies are "Aryan."
In an attempt to assign the origin of the Roma population to a specific geographical area in India, we searched for identical matches within the Roma sequences belonging to the Asian M sub-haplogroups (so then, the M1a1 lineage was not included). These lineages were compared to a dataset of 3,751 sequences from seven different regions and 22 states in India. Then, the weighted proportion of Roma sequences found in each geographical region or state were used to infer the probabilities of origin, which are listed in Table 3.
The subcontinental region showing higher probability of being the source of Roma sequences was North-western India (0.72), followed by Eastern India (0.20) while the rest of the subcontinental regions accounted only for 8% of the probability.
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Dr. A.E. Mourant,'The ABO Blood Groups',Blackwell Scientific Publications,Oxford,1954.
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Roma(of Europe) : O – 31.0, A –26.2 , B –33.9, AB-8.9
Indian warrior castes
Sikh soldiers: O-32.36,A-22.28,B-34.63,AB-10.73
Hindus(soldiers) in Rajasthan: O-33.33,A-21.26,B-35.14,Ab-9.91
Rajputs(near Quetta): O-28.81,A-27.97,B-33.05,AB-10.71
(Malone 1928-29)
Jats(Punjab): O -33.21,A-25.25,B-33.30,AB-11.11 "
A.E. Mourant,”Warrior castes of Rajasthan,Delhi and the Punjab as also the Roma are good representatives of the Indian Mediterranean race and are macroskels.It means that they have legs,a bit longer than the trunk.All of them have straight and thin noses,oval,well-bred faces.The Rajputs are dolycephals as are the majority of the European Roma.Rajput average stature is about 1 inch. higher than the Roma.This difference is almost certainly explained by the fact that Rajputs have better life than the persecuted gypsies of Europe.”
The ABO blood groups (Open Library)
An international collaboration led by Dr Manir Ali of the Leeds Institute of Molecular Medicine, first identified the 'Jatt' mutation in one of four Pakistani families. Further study amongst Roma populations in Europe showed that the same mutation accounted for nearly half of all cases of PCG in that community.
Dr Ali's research also confirms the widely accepted view that the Roma originated from the Jatt clan of Northern India and Pakistan and not from Eastern Europe as previously believed.
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