Natural Selection & the African American Genome

[Dr. Cheese]

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/03/sc...ricans.html?hp


This is a very interesting article.

[Dr. Cheese]

My biggest issue with the study is that African American genes were only compared to Yoruba genes. That may be a result of the Yoruba genome having been studied more than others. I would have liked to seen the genomes of people like the Wolof and Mandingo, Mende, Twi, and a group from Cameroon or the Democratic Republic of Congo included because African Americans have significant numbers of ancestors from all of those groups.

The Yoruba do constitute a significant part of African American ancestry, but from what I know even more African Americans came from what is now Eastern Nigeria, instead the West, which is the home of the Yoruba.

[colcifer]

I think it was more of an exploratory study.

[LiquidMidnight]

I wonder how the White supremacist movement will spin this.

[Root 5]

Originally Posted by LiquidMidnight

I wonder how the White supremacist movement will spin this.

Oh I know! I used to be amused listening to these fools bragging that their blood is "pure white; racially pure."

The human genome project blew that nonsense right out of the water! I love it.

[lunarpollen]

hahaha at first glance I thought it said "Natural Selection & the African American Gnome," and I was like, WTH, this has gotta be good!!!

[Phalex]

I'm not sure I follow this. If they can "remove" the 22% Euro-genes and only conduct tests on the remaining Afro-genes, what are they removing from the indigenous African genes?

If they start out with a 78% "pure" sample, and compare it so a 100% "pure" sample that is "very similar" to what they say the "Original" sample was.......... Arrrgh! My head hurts!

[Relic]

Originally Posted by lunarpollen

hahaha at first glance I thought it said "Natural Selection & the African American Gnome," and I was like, WTH, this has gotta be good!!!

I read it the same way! African American Gnome...lol I was convinced just for a split second that Doc had finally went off the deep end.