Pakistani DNA - How Much Central Asian and How much are We South Asian?

jatt2017 · October 16, 2017, 1:44am

Re: Pakistani DNA - How Much Central Asian and How much are We South Asian?

You are Punjabi and you got those results? Interesting. I am ethnically Pakistani Punjabi (both of my parents are from northeast Punjab–like Sialkot, Gujranwala, basically north of Lahore) and I think that these tests are pointless because it would tell me what I already know (that I am 95% or above South Asian).

Considering the ethnic diversity in Pakistan, the percentages for each ethnic group will be all over the place. Punjabis and Sindhis will obviously have more S Asian percentanges than Pashtuns and people from Balochistan considering where each part of the country is placed. Just by inferring Pakistani Punjabis+Sindhis will probably be something like what is given for Nothern Indian. I suppose you also have to factor in religion and hierarchies and how that influenced marriage trends in modern day Pakistan. Do you have the results for the breakdown of Pakistan?

I suppose whatever the results are, for most of us it will show that either we are (or at least close to) 50-50 Central/South Asian or our non S Asian percentages are pretty negligible. Well, it is just a guess anyways.

If you are from Sialkot, you will also get more or less the same results like me. Pakistanies in general have a higher central asian component than our Indian counter parts. The results are based on Autosomal chromosomes which constitutes like 98 percent of our DNA. Balochs and Pakhtuns might score a higher asian minor or arab ancestry. Some punjabi historians claim Sycthian/hun ancestry which were ancient people of central asia and perhaps of DNA results give a clue of that .