Gujaratis appear to be much more diverse genetically than other South Asians. Gujaratis are proximate to people from South-West Asia, due to high levels of ANI ancestry, which may have arrived in two waves. According to a 2017 study by geneticists from Mangalore (D'Cunha et al., 2017), phylogenetic analysis shows a separation of Dravidian population (sampled from coastal towns of Karnataka and Kerala) from Gujarati population.