TY  - JOUR
AU  - Regueiro, Maria
AU  - Rivera, Luis
AU  - Chennakrishnaiah, Shilpa
AU  - Popović, Branka
AU  - Andjus, Stefan
AU  - Milašin, Jelena
AU  - Herrera, Rene J.
PY  - 2012
UR  - https://smile.stomf.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/1763
AB  - One of the primary unanswered questions regarding the dispersal of Romani populations concerns the geographical region and/or the Indian caste/tribe that gave rise to the proto-Romani group. To shed light on this matter, 161 Y-chromosomes from Roma, residing in two different provinces of Serbia, were analyzed. Our results indicate that the paternal gene pool of both groups is shaped by several strata, the most prominent of which, H1-M52, comprises almost half of each collection's patrilineages. The high frequency of M52 chromosomes in the two Roma populations examined may suggest that they descend from a single founder that has its origins in the Indian subcontinent. Moreover, when the Y-STR profiles of haplogroup H derived individuals in our Roma populations were compared to those typed in the South Indian emigrants from Malaysia and groups from Madras, Karnataka (Lingayat and Vokkaliga castes) and tribal Soligas, sharing of the two most common haplotypes was observed. These similarities suggest that South India may have been one of the contributors to the proto-Romanis. European genetic signatures (i.e., haplogroups E1b1b1a1b-V13, G2a-P15, I-M258, J2-M172 and R1-M173), on the other hand, were also detected in both groups, but at varying frequencies. The divergent European genetic signals in each collection are likely the result of differential gene flow and/or admixture with the European host populations but may also be attributed to dissimilar endogamous practices following the initial founder effect. Our data also support the notion that a number of haplogroups including G2a-P15, J2a3b-M67(xM92), I-M258 and E1b1b1-M35 were incorporated into the proto-Romani paternal lineages as migrants moved from northern India through Southwestern Asia, the Middle East and/or Anatolia into the Balkans.
PB  - Elsevier, Amsterdam
T2  - Gene
T1  - Ancestral modal Y-STR haplotype shared among Romani and South Indian populations
VL  - 504
IS  - 2
SP  - 296
EP  - 302
DO  - 10.1016/j.gene.2012.04.093
ER  - 

@article{
author = "Regueiro, Maria and Rivera, Luis and Chennakrishnaiah, Shilpa and Popović, Branka and Andjus, Stefan and Milašin, Jelena and Herrera, Rene J.",
year = "2012",
abstract = "One of the primary unanswered questions regarding the dispersal of Romani populations concerns the geographical region and/or the Indian caste/tribe that gave rise to the proto-Romani group. To shed light on this matter, 161 Y-chromosomes from Roma, residing in two different provinces of Serbia, were analyzed. Our results indicate that the paternal gene pool of both groups is shaped by several strata, the most prominent of which, H1-M52, comprises almost half of each collection's patrilineages. The high frequency of M52 chromosomes in the two Roma populations examined may suggest that they descend from a single founder that has its origins in the Indian subcontinent. Moreover, when the Y-STR profiles of haplogroup H derived individuals in our Roma populations were compared to those typed in the South Indian emigrants from Malaysia and groups from Madras, Karnataka (Lingayat and Vokkaliga castes) and tribal Soligas, sharing of the two most common haplotypes was observed. These similarities suggest that South India may have been one of the contributors to the proto-Romanis. European genetic signatures (i.e., haplogroups E1b1b1a1b-V13, G2a-P15, I-M258, J2-M172 and R1-M173), on the other hand, were also detected in both groups, but at varying frequencies. The divergent European genetic signals in each collection are likely the result of differential gene flow and/or admixture with the European host populations but may also be attributed to dissimilar endogamous practices following the initial founder effect. Our data also support the notion that a number of haplogroups including G2a-P15, J2a3b-M67(xM92), I-M258 and E1b1b1-M35 were incorporated into the proto-Romani paternal lineages as migrants moved from northern India through Southwestern Asia, the Middle East and/or Anatolia into the Balkans.",
publisher = "Elsevier, Amsterdam",
journal = "Gene",
title = "Ancestral modal Y-STR haplotype shared among Romani and South Indian populations",
volume = "504",
number = "2",
pages = "296-302",
doi = "10.1016/j.gene.2012.04.093"
}

Regueiro, M., Rivera, L., Chennakrishnaiah, S., Popović, B., Andjus, S., Milašin, J.,& Herrera, R. J.. (2012). Ancestral modal Y-STR haplotype shared among Romani and South Indian populations. in Gene
Elsevier, Amsterdam., 504(2), 296-302.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gene.2012.04.093

Regueiro M, Rivera L, Chennakrishnaiah S, Popović B, Andjus S, Milašin J, Herrera RJ. Ancestral modal Y-STR haplotype shared among Romani and South Indian populations. in Gene. 2012;504(2):296-302.
doi:10.1016/j.gene.2012.04.093 .

Regueiro, Maria, Rivera, Luis, Chennakrishnaiah, Shilpa, Popović, Branka, Andjus, Stefan, Milašin, Jelena, Herrera, Rene J., "Ancestral modal Y-STR haplotype shared among Romani and South Indian populations" in Gene, 504, no. 2 (2012):296-302,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gene.2012.04.093 . .