Human Origin, Health and Disease: Contemporary and Ancient DNA Perspectives

Speaker: Prof. K. Thangaraj, Senior Principal Scientist, CSIR - Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad

 

Modern India is a region of remarkable cultural, linguistic and genetic diversity with over 4,500 anthropologically well-defined groups. How did such a huge human diversity arise in India? Genetic studies over a period of two decades unveil the origin, admixture and its implications of the people of Indian subcontinent