
Originally Posted by
Rahuls77
I have noticed something, the two other Potohari Brahmans I have found on Gedmatch, and have got their y haplogroups confirmed, are both R1a. However whether they are the Indo-Aryan l657, its not certain, including myself. We could very well be a population distinct from the normal Hindi Heartland Brahmins. Even Kashmiri Pandits, who appear to be my close autosomal matches, are quite distinct, culturally as well as in phynotype, and then they appear to have a great deal of y lineage diversity, and I know I am reckoning so in the absence of a decent sample for Potohari Brahmans. The closest that Potohari Brahmans come to another Brahman community, is the Jammu Dogra Brahmans. And on nmonte, I find I have quite a few Gujrati Brahmans as top matches.