Dienekes alerts me to the fact that the International Congress of Human Genetics abstracts are online. I spent an hour using only a few keywords, and came up with a lot.

1) If you have a presentation and think it might interest the readers here, feel free to drop a link in (I will look in the spam folder more today, though one link shouldn’t drive it crazy).

2) If you are a reader and found something interesting, do the same.

Below are some abstracts that caught my eye….

Estimating a date of mixture of ancestral South Asian populations. ” Our analyses suggest that major ANI-ASI mixture occurred in the ancestors of both northern and southern Indians 1,200-3,500 years ago, overlapping the time when Indo-European languages first began to be spoken in the subcontinent. These results suggest that this formative period of Indian history was accompanied by mixtures between two highly diverged populations, although our results do not rule other, older ANI-ASI admixture events.” I wonder how much money these researchers put on only one admixture. I’m highly skeptical that the Indo-European demographic pulse could be so powerful that they could contribute to ~35% of the ancestry of ...