ALFRED: allele frequency database

The ALlele FREquency Database
ALFRED is a resource of gene frequency data on human populations
supported by the U. S. National Science Foundation.

ALFRED detailed record information

Population Information

Name	ALFRED UID	Primary Language	Language Family
Thoti	PO000077O	TELUGU	Indo-European

Synonyms:
Geographic Location¹: 20N, 77E; 13N, 84E

Sites typed for this population: View List
Population Samples: See Sample Information
External Resources: Andhra Pradesh Record Ethnologue: Language Description Record Tribal Communities of Andhra Pradesh Record Ethnologue: Country Description Record List of Scheduled Castes Record
References: See references
Population Description: The Thoti inhabit many districts of Andhra Pradesh, India. This endogenous tribal group speaks and writes in Telugu, a Dravidian language. Their caste, panchayat, is led by the pinapedda and two elders. The traditional occupation of the Thoti was to serve the village community. They are currently mostly employed in town and government buildings as sweepers; they also make appropriate preparations for cremations. The Thoti are Hindu; however, they do eat beef. They observe pollution rituals during birth and death. Marriages are arranged and typically the Thoti live in a nuclear family.
References:
- Singh KS. "The Scheduled Castes". Anthropological Survey of India: Oxford University Press 2:(1993)

- Thurston E. "Castes and Tribes of Southern India". Madras: Government Press, 1909; rpt. 1975, Delhi: Cosmo Publications 7:192,392. (1975)

- Tribhuwan RD, Tribhuwan PR "Tribal Dances of India". (chapter 44: Thoti: the musicians of Gonds/Uttamrao Sonawane and Robin D. Tribhuwan.) (1999)

Sample Information:

Graph estimated heterozygosities for various sites

Sample Name: Thoti

Sample UID: SA003825S

Sample Description:This sample consists of Thoti individuals from Nalgonda district, Andhra Pradesh.

Number of Chromosomes: 22

Relation to Other Samples:

References:
- Gallego Romero I, Basu Mallick C, Liebert A, Crivellaro F, Chaubey G, Itan Y, Metspalu M, Eaaswarkhanth M, Pitchappan R, Villems R, Reich D, Singh L, Thangaraj K, Thomas MG, Swallow DM, Miraz�n Lahr M, Kivisild T. "Herders of Indian and European Cattle Share Their Predominant Allele for Lactase Persistence". Mol Biol Evol 29:249-260. (2012) Online citation.

Sample Information:

Graph estimated heterozygosities for various sites

Sample Name: Thoti

Sample UID: SA000077O

Sample Description:Thoti from Andra Pradesh, collected by B. Muralidhar of Osmania University.

Number of Chromosomes: 28

Relation to Other Samples:

References:
- Chang FM, Kidd JR, Livak KJ, Pakstis AJ, Kidd KK. "The world-wide distribution of allele frequencies at the human dopamine D4 receptor locus". Hum. Genet. 98:91-101. (1996) Online citation.

- Mateu E, Calafell F, Bonne-Tamir B, Kidd JR, Casals T, Kidd KK, Bertranpetit J. "Allele Frequencies in a Worldwide Survey of a CA Repeat in the First Intron of the CFTR Gene". Human Heredity 49:15-20. (1999) Online citation.

- Tishkoff SA, Goldman A, Calafell F, Speed WC, Deinard AS, Bonne-Tamir B, Kidd JR, Pakstis AJ, Jenkins T, Kidd KK. "A global haplotype analysis of the myotonic dystrophy locus: implications for the evolution of modern humans and for the origin of myotonic dystrophy mutations". Am. J. Hum. Genet. 62:1389-402. (1998) Online citation.

¹Geographic Coordinates represent two opposite corners of a rectangle encompassing the area where the population lives.This data is preliminary and changing.

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