title: Molecular genetic perspectives on the Indian social structure.
abstract: For historical reasons, the Indian subcontinent is endowed with enormous ethnic, cultural, and genetic heterogeneity of its people. In the process of understanding the dynamics and sociocultural complexity of Indian society, anthropologists have come up with a number of hypotheses involving certain social/cultural processes that may modulate evolutionary processes. In this article, we outline some of those hypotheses and present molecular genetic evidences, both published and unpublished, to demonstrate the effects of those social/cultural processes.
authors.affiliation: Molecular Anthropology Group, Indian Statistical Institute, Street No. 8, Habsiguda, Hyderabad 500 007, India. bmr@isical.ac.in
authors.forename: B Mohan
authors.initials: BM
authors.lastname: Reddy
authors.forename: Vikal
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Tripathy
authors.forename: Vikrant
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Kumar
authors.forename: Nirmala
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Alla
mesh_terms: D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D005006:Ethnicity / Q000235:genetics; D005828:Genetics, Population; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D008393:Marriage / Q000208:ethnology*; D044469:Racial Groups / Q000235:genetics; D012111:Residence Characteristics; D012923:Social Class; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors