July 31, 2005

Debunking the concept of 'race' ... not

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An editorial in the NY Times is supposedly meant to show how genetic testing "disproves" the concept of race. A professor gave ad...
July 28, 2005

Pre-Roman Iberian mtDNA

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A new study has been published on the ancient DNA of Iberia. Here is a link to several other ancient DNA articles reported previously on th...

Diversity of tribal Indians

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Annals of Human Genetics (Early view) Diversity and Divergence Among the Tribal Populations of India W.S. Watkins et al. Summary Tribal pop...

Ancient European DNA mutation causes ataxia

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American Journal of Human Genetics (Online Early) Mitochondrial DNA Polymerase W748S Mutation: A Common Cause of Autosomal Recessive Ataxia...
July 22, 2005

Reliability of P25 marker

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A new study deals with some problems of the P25 marker which defines haplogroup R1b. Normally, a SNP is considered rare enough that its pre...
July 20, 2005

Structure of Mongoloid populations

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A previous study discovered a near-perfect differentiation of Japanese from Chinese based on autosomal loci, indicating a strong substructur...

Y-haplogroups of some European population

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A new paper in the Forensic Science International gives some interesting results Detection of 1 haplogroup A* and 2 BCD chromosomes in Ge...
July 19, 2005

Neighborhood segregation in the United States

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Blacks are currently the most segregated population in the United States, but they have also experienced the largest decline in segregation...

Culture switching

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An interesting press release about an experiment in Hong Kong: In the journal American Psychologist (July 2000), they showed how it mig...
July 18, 2005

Decline in performance of medical examinees in the UK

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EurekAlert has a press release on the decline of performance of candidates taking an examination for postgraduate medical study in the Unit...

DNA Heritage SNP testing

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DNA Heritage is now offering SNP (haplogroup) testing services. The list of markers tested is quite impressive . This may be quite an attr...
July 16, 2005

25,800-year old Australoid from Thailand

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Excavations in the Moh Khiew Cave in Thailand have uncovered a 25,800-year old skeleton. An analysis of these remains has shown that it is u...

10,300-year old Alaskan had mtDNA haplogroup D

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A short piece of news from Nature reports on an analysis of mtDNA from a 10,300-year old Alaskan who belonged to mtDNA haplogroup D, a comm...

Molecular Clock reset

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John Hawks has written about a new study which has found defects in the way that the molecular clock is used. Read his post about an explan...
July 15, 2005

Population structure in Interleukin-13 (IL13) locus

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This study is interesting, because it provides yet more evidence of the closeness between East Africans and Eurasians: As observed in other ...

The southern origin of O3

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Haplogroup O3 is the main Y-chromosome lineage present in modern East Asian Mongoloids. A new study sampled extensively East Asian populatio...