Friday, March 1, 2024

ITU and General Telugu Haplogroup distribution

 ITU is a dataset of Telugu people in UK. following is their Y-DNA Haplogroup distribution


The H and R2 show close to 25% in this set



A Cross section of Y-DNA obtained from 23andme from Hundreds of samples show following distribution


Adding more samples show higher J2b2 among many castes, some F2 is also present. J2b2 found to be present among large section of population both lower caste and upper caste at 10% among Kamma, Balija, Kapu, Settibalija, Mala and Madiga castes. F2 is upper SE Asian y-dna that is found among Kapus and Reddies and probably similar to the K y-dna present among Telugus.


  • H is close to 24%
  • R2 is 19%
  • R1a is 10%
  • F is 3%
  • J2b2 is 10%
  • L1 is 12%