tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post368001838709636991..comments2024-01-04T04:11:55.717+02:00Comments on Dienekes’ Anthropology Blog: Lack of β thalassemia mutations in Minoan CretansDienekeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02082684850093948970noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post-8034146895202957472012-11-25T22:31:17.769+02:002012-11-25T22:31:17.769+02:00The mutation must be related to protection against...The mutation must be related to protection against malaria in (former) malarial areas of the Mediterranean/West Asia. Resistance to malaria typically brings with it the side effect of susceptibility to hemoglobin disorders: sickle-cell anemia in Sub-Saharan Africa and Thalassemia in the Mediterranean/West Asia. <br /><br />And as the authors themselves acknowlodge, statistically, the absence of the mutation in such a small sample is not unexpected at all.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7785493.post-71068193720777410902012-11-25T18:19:19.881+02:002012-11-25T18:19:19.881+02:00West-Nostratic populations (or Indo-Kartvelians) w...West-Nostratic populations (or Indo-Kartvelians) were carrying this mutations?Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11539198765353016467noreply@blogger.com