Slashdot Mirror


Ancestry Surprises From New Genetics Analysis Method

An anonymous reader commends a recently published study involving a new way to analyze genetic variation in human populations (full article published in PLOS Genetics): "[S]cientists from Ireland, the UK and the US analysed 2,540 genetic markers in the DNA of almost 1,000 people from around the world whose genetic material had been collected by the Human Genome Diversity Project. The results include a number of surprises... the Yakut people of northern Siberia were found to have received a significant genetic contribution from the population of the Orkney Islands, which lie off the coast of Scotland... there must have been a period of gene flow from northern Europe to east Asia. The study also shed light on the peopling of the Americas, as the results suggest that the native populations of north and south America have different origins."

5 of 223 comments (clear)

  1. Re:The N./S. America thing has been controversial by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    You mean by the Flood?

    As usual, the Scriptures were right and science only continues to prove that.

  2. Re:Truth Finally by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yeah - truth is a bitch. go back to drink your jew on a stick's metaphorical blood. i'll only let you convert me if you leave me the left kidney (aka garlic bread).

  3. mod 3oWn by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
  4. Re:Maps of human travel on earth by Collapsing+Empire · · Score: -1, Troll

    Asian people have skin pigment. Contrary to modern sociological thought, the races differ in ways other than just skin color and the people who argue for racial differences do not do so on the basis of skin color.

    Pretty much all the racial science out there remarks the same conclusion that East Asian populations are more intelligent than Caucasian ones. They also remark that Ashkenazi Jews are probably the most intelligent people on Earth.

    Put that in your pipe and smoke it.