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NEW DELHI: Despite Asia harbouring vast cultural and linguistic diversity, the people of Asia are linked by a unique genetic thread with the common ancestors of the Asian population being traced to India, revealed a pan-Asian study.
Disputing the long-believed theory that the human population went directly to East Asian countries from the African region nearly a hundred thousand years ago, the study says that there was a single point initial entry to Asia from Africa - through South India - not multiple inflows.
The genetic make-up of the population of India is the perfect setting for the study of disease, genetics, pharmaco-genomics and clinical trials of the drugs for major pandemics including flu, HIV and other pandemics for the whole world.
It is the first time the human genetic diversity in Asia has been mapped. The study was conducted by a group of over 90 scientists from the Human Genome Organisation (HUGO)s pan-Asian SNP Consortium partnering ten Asian countries namely India, China, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand. The team reached the conclusions after examining genetic data from 1,928 people representing 73 populations across Asia.
This study shows that our future is based on mutual cooperation and not conflict. The imminent problems of climate change and pandemics could be solved by such cooperative research, said Union Minister for Science and Technology Prithviraj Chauhan.
India: Mother of all Asians,
Disputing the long-believed theory that the human population went directly to East Asian countries from the African region nearly a hundred thousand years ago, the study says that there was a single point initial entry to Asia from Africa - through South India - not multiple inflows.
The genetic make-up of the population of India is the perfect setting for the study of disease, genetics, pharmaco-genomics and clinical trials of the drugs for major pandemics including flu, HIV and other pandemics for the whole world.
It is the first time the human genetic diversity in Asia has been mapped. The study was conducted by a group of over 90 scientists from the Human Genome Organisation (HUGO)s pan-Asian SNP Consortium partnering ten Asian countries namely India, China, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand. The team reached the conclusions after examining genetic data from 1,928 people representing 73 populations across Asia.
This study shows that our future is based on mutual cooperation and not conflict. The imminent problems of climate change and pandemics could be solved by such cooperative research, said Union Minister for Science and Technology Prithviraj Chauhan.
India: Mother of all Asians,