@SahraAlaho1 Indianoids also have their own AASI-specific ancestry that distinguishes them from all other populations. If Native Americans aren't classified as Asians even though they're more closely related to Asians than Indians, we shouldn't be classifying Indians as Asians either.
@SahraAlaho1 That's not recent admixture. That's deep ancestry, which means it happened in the distant past after the initial OOA dispersal. The point stands that the Himalayas reinforced genetic isolation of Indianoid populations.
@SahraAlaho1 Yes and at finer resolutions (k=6) that "east Asian" ancestry resolves itself into an AASI component specific to the subcontinent. Indians are genetically distinct enough to be classified as a non-Asian Indianoid population.
@SahraAlaho1 Deep ancestry does not mean recent admixture events or even that the populations are closely related. All non-Africans share deep ancestry in that sense.
@SahraAlaho1 I'm saying the Indian subcontinent is genetically and geographically distinct enough from Eurasia to be classified as its own continent. Amerindians are more closely related to Asians than Indians, but aren't classified as Asians. So it's ridiculous to think of Indians as Asian.
@SahraAlaho1 You're the one who's coping. At k=6 that "East Asian" ancestry resolves itself into a distinct component specific to the Indian subcontinent. The deep ancestry only indicates a distant relationship, comparable to how all non-Africans share deep ancestry. Indians aren't Asians.
@SahraAlaho1 AASI is only found in trace amounts in nearby populations. It's still localized to the subcontinent. Thanks for confirming the Indian subcontinent is genetically distinct from East Asia.
@comedy_cartoons@info_maiden@PolicyAndCapita You don't act like, look like or sound like Asians, j33t. You eat your own feces and gang rape animals and small children. You're not even evolved enough to be Asian. Genetics and geography matter, j33t.
@SahraAlaho1 @GarbageHuman24 The Himalayas reinforced the genetic isolation of AASI. That's why it's only found in the Indian subcontinent and nowhere else.
@SahraAlaho1 @GarbageHuman24 India is not connected to Eurasia and is therefore its own continent. The chart shows the two Indian populations sampled cluster with west Eurasian populations, but have minor east Asian deep ancestry. This is not recent gene flow. This shows that Indians are not Asians.
@SahraAlaho1 Indians should not be classified as Asian. Just because they are distantly related to Asians does not make them Asian. AASI is not found anywhere outside the subcontinent and the closest living proxy population for AASI is both genetically and biologically distinct from Asians.