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Kalash haplotype sharing

Explore Kalash population analysis revealing connections with West Asian donor populations and the significance of haplogroup G.

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Prompted by my posts, Dienekes, A teaser on the Kalash:

I am in the middle of a ChromoPainter/fineSTRUCTURE analysis of a broad dataset designed to explore certain mysteries that have often come up in my previous experiments. Barring the unexpected, the analysis should be completed sometime next week. Below you can see the normalized number of "chunks" donated by various populations to the Kalash....

Here is the bar plot which Dienekes generated (left to right indicates extent of "donation" to the Kalash):

I highlighted the most significant non-South Asian donor. Dienekes states:

Of particular interest is the fact that all West Asian populations appear higher on the donor list than all Northern European ones, which confirms, using a haplotype-based approach, my previous inference that the Ancestral North Indian (ANI) component is related to West Asians.

The main issue I would point out is that

"West Asians" are probably a major ...

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