Until now, all Sindhis were thought to have their origins in Pakistan’s Sindh. But a new study has shown that many Sindhis in India could be different from their Pakistani cousins – all thanks to their link to Mongolia.

The first high-throughput genetic study by Hyderabad ’s Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR)-Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology (CCMB) examined the common ancestry, local assimilation, and past migration history of India’s Sindhi population. It found that the Sindhi population on the west coast of India has a genetic makeup that’s different from Pakistani Sindhis – thanks to the existence of a unique East Asian genetic component.

According to Dr Kumarasamy Thangaraj – a CSIR Bhatnagar Fellow at the CSIR (CCMB) and one of two authors of the study — t

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