genetics

Science News: DNA data offer evidence of unknown extinct human relative "People from Melanesia, a region in the South Pacific encompassing Papua New Guinea and surrounding islands, may carry genetic evidence of a previously unknown extinct hominid species, Ryan Bohlender reported October 20 at...

Someone posted this on the Eupedia Genetic Research Group on Facebook. The site is called Genomix and is apparently run by the University of Sydney in Australia. It is part of a life extension project. They will sequence the whole genome (3 billion base pairs) at a 30x coverage, which is...

Here are the Eupedia pages that have been translated so far. Anybody with the necessary skills is welcome to volunteer to translate more pages. In French Comment retracer ses origines ancestrales avec un test ADN ? Quel test ADN d'ascendance et de généalogie choisir ? Projet ADN généalogique...

It's been a while since I haven't created a new map as we are running out of haplogroups (or data for subclades). I thought it would be interesting to visualise the whole of haplogroup U, as this is a very ancient lineage and apparently the first to colonise Europe from c. 40,000 years ago, and...

The general consensus has been that Y-chromosomal DNA only contains a few of genes relating to male fertility and does not influence the carrier's appearance, except of course for the male characteristics influenced by testosterone. I have argued before that some Y-chromosomal mutations, in the...

I am on my way to translating all the Y-DNA and mtDNA haplogroup pages into French. I am looking for people to translate some pages into other languages, ideally into your mother tongue or a language that you speak at native level. It can be any language and any page. You don't have to translate...

Slovakia is one of most rich country to archeological objects and prehistory graves. The majority of prehistory graves are bodies buried via cremation. But cremation is not probably problem for DNA for analysis, because in urn (in earthen jug/mug) are relative big pieces non-burned bones...

I woke up this morning to the most shocking news, something that most people around the world didn't see coming. I am not talking about North Korea's nuclear test (we saw that one coming), but to a new German study published in Cell Biology showing that giraffes aren't a single species but four...

I wouldn't qualify the following study as new exactly, as it was published in 1986, but it still makes for an interesting read. New York Times: MAJOR PERSONALITY STUDY FINDS THAT TRAITS ARE MOSTLY INHERITED The main finding is: "Among traits found most strongly determined by heredity were...

E1b1b belongs to causaziana race and E1b1a belong to the black race?:thinking:

A new study in collaboration with the World Health Organisation compares the evolution of body height by gender over a century, from 1914 to 2014. It confirms that Dutch men are still the tallest in the world at 183 cm (6ft), a status they have held for several decades. Latvian women overtook...

I have wonder for many years if "ethnic" or regional admixture are truly reflected in physical appearance or not. DNA segments used for genetic admixtures like those of Dodecad or Eurogenes do not necessarily contain a high percentage of genes affecting phenotypes. There could more of them that...

The original Celts came from central Europe. However modern central Europeans (Swiss and Austrians) don't look phenotypically Celtic in the modern interpretation (Irish, welsh). Were the original Celts closer in appearance and genes to the Irish (pale, freckles, red hair) or closer to the Swiss...

I am currently reading Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari, a hugely thought-provoking book that I warmly recommend. In chapter seven, he explains: "The large societies found in some other species, such as ants and bees, are stable and resilient because most of the...

I have long wondered how much of the modern Italian and Greek population descend from slaves imported from other countries. We have no idea at present if their genetic impact was minor (few slaves left descendants), moderate (e.g. 10% or 20% of modern genomes come from foreign slaves) or major...

Just saw this in the news: Was Viking ruler Rollo Danish or Norwegian? This means that we should get the Y-DNA haplogroup of the Viking rulers of Normandy, from Rollo to William the Conqueror. Looking forward to it.

Veritas Genetics, a company co-founded by renowned Harvard geneticist George Church, will soon offer whole genome sequencing for $999. Here is the official announcement. A few noteworthy quotes: To avoid the legal problems encountered by 23andMe, they will require that the test is ordered by...

The Guardian is relaying this morning the publication of a new paper (Kuhlwilm et al. 2016) which established that a population that diverged early from other modern humans in Africa contributed genetically to the ancestors of Neanderthals from the Altai Mountains roughly 100,000 years ago...

Here is a map showing the allele frequency of HLA-DR14. The maximum frequencies are observed in Kosovo (8.5%), Albania (7.5%), South Italy (7.5%), Georgia (7.5%), Romania (7%), Macedonia (6.7%), Greece (6.5% but 4% in Crete), Armenia (6.5%). DR14 is virtually absent from the Sardinian, Basque...

Here is a map showing the allele frequency of HLA-DR10. The maximum frequencies are observed in the Lebanon (5.2%), Saudi Arabia (4.8%), Palestine (4.7%), Jordan (3.8%), Morocco (3.3%), Algeria (3%), Tunisia (3%), and oddly enough also among the Saami people (2.9%). It is absent from the Basque...