Sindhi_Pakistan 14 raw genome samples 23andme format

Sindhis are an Indo-Aryan ethnolinguistic group native to Sindh, the lower Indus River valley in present-day southern Pakistan, with large diaspora communities in India and abroad.

Sindh was the heartland of the Indus Valley Civilization. Later it was ruled by Achaemenids, Mauryas, Indo-Greeks, and Kushans, integrating it early into wider Eurasian networks.

Muhammad bin Qasim brought Sindh into the Umayyad Caliphate, making it one of the earliest Muslim regions in South Asia. Sindh retained strong local autonomy despite nominal caliphal rule.

Pashtun and turkic dynasties, such as the Ghaznavids, Ghurids, later Mughals with Pashtun elites, ruled over Sindh at times, but Sindh generally retained its own language and identity.

Many modern Sindhi clans have partial Baloch ancestry, and Balochi-Sindhi cultural overlap is strong in rural Sindh. Sindh is predominantly muslim.

For this video, I gathered the raw genomes of 14 Sindhis from Harvard’d aadr + .HO dataset. I used academic tools, such as admixtools 1 and 2, but also amateur tools, such as my trait predictor and mageplot, to analyze their genetics.