Research Spotlight

Mapping genetic diversity with the GenomeIndia project. Chandrika Bhattacharyya, Krithika Subramanian, Bharathram Uppili, Nidhan K. Biswas, Shweta Ramdas, Karthik Bharadwaj Tallapaka, Prathima Arvind, Khader Valli Rupanagudi, Arindam Maitra, Tulasi Nagabandi, Tiyasha De, Kuldeep Singh, Praveen Sharma, Nanaocha Sharma, Sunil K. Raghav, Punit Prasad, E. V. Soniya, Abdul Jaleel, Shijulal Nelson Sathi, Madhvi Joshi, Chaitanya Joshi, Mayurika Lahiri, Santosh Dixit, L. S. Shashidhara, Nachimuthu Senthil Kumar, H. Lalhruaitluanga, Lal Nundanga, Venkataram Shivakumar, Ganesan Venkatasubramanian, Naren P. Rao, Mohd Ashraf Ganie, Imtiyaz Ahmad Wani, Ganganath Jha, Ashwin Dalal, Murali Dharan Bashyam, Pritish Kumar Varadwaj, SanjeevBS, Yogesh Simmhan, Chirag Jain, Durai Sundar, Ishaan Gupta, Pankaj Yadav, Himanshu Sinha, Manikandan Narayanan, Karthik Raman, Raghu Padinjat, Radhakrishnan Sabarinathan, GenomeIndia Consortium, Yadati Narahari, Vijayalakshmi Ravindranath, Thangaraj Kumarasamy, Divya Tej Sowpati, Mohammed Faruq, Analabha Basu & Bratati KahaliNat Genet (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-025-02153-x

Abstract
The rich ethnolinguistic and sociocultural differences that exist in India offers a unique opportunity to study human diversity. With the whole genomes of 10,000 healthy and unrelated Indians from 83 populations, the GenomeIndia project captures the genetic diversity of one of the highly underrepresented populations in the global genomics landscape.