Principal Investigator: Mayurika Lahiri
Co-Investigators: Santosh Dixit and LS Shashidhara
Role of the Institution in the GenomeIndia Project: IISER Pune was entrusted with collecting 1142 samples from four communities.
The required number of samples (1153) from each of the communities were collected and sent to CBR, Bengaluru for sequencing. DNA extraction from the samples have been done and kept at IISER Pune as back-up.