Monday, November 4, 2019

Kurdish mtDNA data XII

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Just an update with fully sequenced mtDNA (N=209): 1x B4b1a (Kurd from Turkey)   1x C (Kurds from Saqqez, Kurdistan-Iran; Farjadian et...
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Monday, May 22, 2017

First Human Ancestor Came from Europe Not Africa

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Today, a new paper came out questioning the OOA hypothesis. PlosOne article: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....
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Monday, May 1, 2017

Lactase persistence gene: MCM6 of Denisovans found in East Asia

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Today, I obtained genotype data comprising MCM6 SNPs from HapMap for 2436 individuals from 26 HapMap populations (ESN, GWD, LWK, MSL, YRI,...
Sunday, December 11, 2016

Archery in Iran, Horse riding in Iran

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Drawing recently discovered near Khomein show among other engravings a person riding a horse with archery. Based on Dutch archeologists som...
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Thursday, December 1, 2016

Enattah et al., 2008: Convergence of lactase persistence

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Today, I want to dig a little bit more into the genetics of lactase persistence. The goal is still to identify unknown MCM6 haplotypes in Mi...
Friday, June 12, 2015

Dodecad K12b values of Bronze Age individuals living in Armenia

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A new paper in Nature ( Allentoft et al., 2015 ) presenting the genomes of ancient 101 Eurasians is currently fascinating geneticists but al...
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Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Lactose intolerance: Six MCM6 variants in the Kurdish gene pool / Why 22018A is strongly, but not completely related to lactase persistence

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In a previous post I discussed the possibility of unknown MCM6 haplotypes in Middle Eastern populations that could lead to lactose toleran...
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