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DNA samples throw light on Thai-Ahom link
The Telegraph | Gaurav Das | Guwahati, Apr 29, 2018
New preliminary scientific findings based on DNA samples collected from 22 living Tai Ahom royal descendants and five samples from bone fragments of ancient skeletal remains have shown a clear affinity with modern day Thai population. Out of the 22 modern Ahom samples, DNA maternal ancestry analysis has shown six Ahom ones with genetic origin in Southeast Asia, mainly Thailand.
"These new findings can re-ignite our curiosity on the migration pattern of the Ahoms to Assam. It has reconfirmed the existing scholarship on the early history of the Ahoms," said Arupjyoti Saikia who teaches history at IIT Guwahati.
"This haplogroup was traced in Thailand. It is an indication of sharing common genetic traits and in this case, the Ahom with the Thai . Genetically, the local population or the non-Ahom groups like Naga, Ao Naga and others are closer to China/Han Chinese. The findings mean that the first generation Ahoms of Assam may not share the east Asian ancestry, mainly China," said Veena Mushrif Tripathy, a skeletal biologist and assistant professor at Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute.
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