Re: Politically sensitive study

On 11/6/2024 4:33 PM, RonO wrote:

https://www.science.org/content/article/politically-sensitive-study- india-looks-dna-track-ancient-migrations
 India is literally digging up part of their history that they probably do not want to face.  The data on the origins of the Aryans may not be what those in political power want as their history.  They are going to isolate the DNA out of these old bones and find out.
 Maybe as far back as the 1990's.  It may have been when I was post docing between 1993 and 1996, but I can't recall.  A research paper used genetic markers to do the type of genetic relationship population genetics that 23 and Me routinely does, but for the Japanese population.   They did not have very many markers, but there were enough to come to some conclusions.  The research uncovered what was not acceptable to the Japanese researchers involved in the study and they had their names removed from the publication.  The genetics uncovered something that is not in the official history of the origin of the Samurai.  What hadn't seemed to be admitted to was that some lord got banished to Hokkaido, but eventually came back, likely with an army, and took back his fife and expanded his holdings.  It turned out that those modern Japanese claiming Samurai ancestry (like my family) had genetics that had obviously come from Hokkaido.  They also had skeletal features that linked them to the Ainu people of Hokkaido that had been treated like second class citizens.  The Japanese researchers did not want to be involved in a publication that linked the revered Samurai class with the lowly Ainu.
 Both my mother's and father's families claim to be Samurai, and they have similar family crests.  Their claimed pedigrees share some of the same Samurai ancestors.  Both families lived in Hiroshima before my grand parents immigrated to America.  23 and Me has designated me as Japanese from Hiroshima, and they also claim that I have genetics that came from Hokkaido.
 The Indians may not find what they want to find.
 Ron Okimoto

I probably should note that the ruling party is also anti-evolution like Kalk pretended to be, and has some weird policies to try to deny reality that have previously been put up on TO.
Ron Okimoto