DNA of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, FATA people

A recent study conducted on “Pushtun Ethnogenesis” revealed that the deoxyribonucleic acids (DNAs) of people from Federally Administrated Tribal Areas (FATA) and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province are similar to the inhabitants of Central and South Asia and Eastern Europe.Addressing a seminar on “Pushtun Ethnogenesis” Professor Muhammad Naeem of Peshawar University said that different studies conducted in Afghanistan and Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and FATA and Florida state of America have concluded that the DNAs of people of North and South Afghanistan are similar to people of South West Russian states.He said that a recent Ethnogenesis study conducted by South Korea in KP and FATA divulged that the DNAs of masses of these areas are also similar to Western European and Asian people. He further informed that the DNA of Kandhar (Afghanistan) people have a match with people of Peshawar.DNA deoxyribonucleic acid is the hereditary material in humans and almost all other organisms. Nearly every cell in a person’s body has the same DNA.