Genetics
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Apparently, behavioral geneticist David Lykken wrote a book about antisocial people in the late 1990s. It's kinda amusing. Writing style similar to Paul Meehl, they were in fact co...
Some south American ancient human genomes. Putting together all the S. & N. American a.genomes it seems so far that the Onge/Papuan-like ancestry is not only there in deep South A...
Why is alpha thalassaemia hard to understand? Because we have 4 alpha globin genes (2 from each parent). 1 gene deleted: trait (harmless) 2 genes deleted: trait (harmless) 3 gene...
Welcome to #TenTweetNephJC ✳️10 tweets #NephJC catch-up ✳️ Perplexed by how gene dosage plays a role in ADPKD? Fascinated by futuristic stories of miRNA,CRISPR & want to see an ap...
First white man to run the 100 meters under 10 seconds was Christophe Lemaitre. he did this in 2010. First black man to run the 100 meters under 10 seconds was Jim Hines, he did it...
New DNA study reveals two ancestral streams into Britain, but only one survived. Let's break down a story of skull cups, ice age hunters and the emergence of the British Mesolithic...
Friend of mine got his DNA tested, his results were kinda cool so thought to share. His father is a Brahmin from Jammu and his mother is Northern European. His Y-haplogroup is R1a-...
Our work on DNA methylation trajectories during aging has been published. We find that local CpG density and SNPs affect age-associeted DNA methylation changes. You can read more h...
I think this is exaggerated, because in India the phenotypical difference can be striking but the genetic distance even between the most Northern castes vs the Southermost castes i...
Amazing video series on Bayesian stats by @rlmcelreath How is this free? I want everyone of my clients to watch the first 10 minutes of vid 3 on predictive v explanatory models ht...
I have long said that middle American radicals are quickly becoming an ethnic block. Ethnicities can generate extremely quickly. We have this idea that it would have to take a mill...
🧵THREAD: SCIENTISTS SAY SEX IN HUMANS IS BINARY. 1. Nobel Prize-winning biologist Dr. Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard: "All mammals have two sexes and man is a mammal. There are peop...
New post on my substack. Genetic Ancestry of Pahadi/Garhwali Brahmins and Rajputs. Some Pahadi/Garhwali Brahmins and Rajputs have upto 15% Tibetan ancestry. Ignore the "Rajasth...
Sicanian samples in the 5th century BC Himera (in north-central Sicily) paper are similar to the preceding late Bronze Age samples from Sicily, but they had mixed a bit with foreig...
PCA showing the Genetic Variation of the modern Indo-Iranian peoples, on my new blogpost. We can see where different Indo-Iranian groups cluster based on their ancestry. https:/...
Archaeogenetics & other methods contribute to the understanding of the battles of Himera between Carthaginian & the Greeks. The 1st battle was won by the Greeks. The second under t...
Reasonable review on the impact of Neanderthal introgression on modern sapiens. A big factor in the survival of N alleles is the selective pressure from infections. Interestingly,...
It’s irritating how many people get upset when you talk about genetics/anthropology & assume you just have a narrative to push or are some vile racist who hates everyone else. Th...
The fine details of the recent Anglo-Saxon paper. Let's explore the new genetic makeup of modern England and English descendants globally. https://t.co/4YjfBwIrJU
Analysis and beakdown of the collected 🇲🇦🇩🇿🇹🇳 samples https://t.co/gFj2sRCsid
A fascinating revelation for me from pop-genetics - You could have a family that's part of an endogamous group for 1000 yrs Yet 4500 yrs ago: Dad's patrilineal line may be in Ukr...
Haplogroups of the Swat Indians. New post on my blog. Only 11% of the Y-DNA of SPGT Indians was from the Steppe. Three most common indigenous lineages were L1a, R2a and E1b1b, ma...
An Iranian from 1800 BCE. New post on my blog where I look at a sample from 1800 BCE Uzbekistan that contains the 3 way mix of modern West Iranians (Steppe + BMAC + Chalcolithic...
I have 2.18% Neanderthal ancestry.