Brit-Am Anthropology and DNA Update (17 November 2016, 16 Cheshvan, 5777)
Contents:
1. Most Germans are Dark-Haired. Blondes a Minor Minority
2. Some Brit-Am Articles on Race
3. Human Racial Adaptations
(a) Bajau of Borneo, eyes that see underwater.
(b) Tibetans, antelopes, and pigs show the same adaptations to altitude!
4. Racial Diseases
(a) Anemia in African Bantu
(b) Tay Sachs in Ashkenazic Jews
(c) Thalassemia and Mediterranean Peoples (anti-Malaria qualities)
(d) The Lack of the MTHFR gene in Hispanics, Chinese and Italians.
(e) Race and Health
5. Britons still live in Anglo-Saxon tribal kingdoms
6. Descendants of Neil Ruled Much of Ireland
A Y-Chromosome Signature of Hegemony in Gaelic Ireland
7. YDNA and Environment
Human Paternal Lineages, Languages and Environment in the Caucasus
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1. Most Germans are Dark-Haired. Blondes a Minor Minority
by Chris Woodberry
https://www.quora.com/Why-do-hair-color-of-so-many-Germans-in-past-looks-different-from-the-so-many-Germans-of-today-1/answer/Chris-Woodberry
The truth is that Germans that have natural light hair (Blonde, Red) are and have always been a minority. There are around 65 million ethnic Germans in Germany today, my guesstimate is that there are most likely around 20 - 25 million with light hair (not counting light brown).....
See:
RASTAS
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE BLACK GERMANS OF CENTRAL EUROPE?
http://www.africaresource.com/rasta/sesostris-the-great-the-egyptian-hercules/what-happened-to-the-black-germans/
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2. Some Brit-Am Articles on Race
Hebrew Color
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqWrMMTBbtE
Racial Color of Hebrews
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0xHilZnP_c&t=2s
Israelite Physical Types
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxyQZM9defQ
Inbuilt Adaptation: Evolution Refuted
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIcdJOS6TyQ
You Were Born as You Agreed to Be!
Black Woman
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3. Human Racial Adaptations
The extracts below speak of adaptation to the environment. These are attributed to specific DNA locii. The point is that these DNA changes are not likely to have all passed from one parent donor. The adaptations in question rather reflect a shared reaction of everyone in the region which was expressed in the same way by the same new DNA expression. One of the proofs is the extract concerning Tibetans where the changes in question were "common with other high-altitude mammalian species (such as antelopes and pigs)"
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(a) Bajau of Borneo, eyes that see underwater.
What are some of the most interesting groups/ethnicites/etc. of people?
More specifically, those most people haven't heard of, like the Bajau Water people for example.
Shanfa Chaiyadi
https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-of-the-most-interesting-groups-ethnicites-etc-of-people/answer/Shanfa-Chaiyadi
You can find them in the east coast of Borneo, straddling the Philippines, Malaysia, and Indonesia.
What's unique about them? They live on the sea. Yes, SEA.
Also, they have the ability to focus on their eyesight while underwater.
Their eye muscles have been adapted to constrict the pupils, and also to change the lens shape to increase light refraction. This makes their underwater eyesight twice as strong.
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(b) Tibetans
On the Origin of Tibetans and Their Genetic Basis in Adapting High-Altitude Environments
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3046130/
Binbin Wang,#1,2 Yong-Biao Zhang,#3 Feng Zhang,3 Hongbin Lin,3 Xumin Wang,3 Ning Wan,3 Zhenqing Ye,3 Haiyu Weng,4 Lili Zhang,3 Xin Li,3 Jiangwei Yan,3 Panpan Wang,3 Tingting Wu,3 Longfei Cheng,1,2 Jing Wang,1,2 Duen-Mei Wang,3,* Xu Ma,1,2,5,* and Jun Yu3,*
Tibetans exhibit many biological features in common with other high-altitude mammalian species (such as antelopes and pigs), including absence of chronic mountain sickness (CMS), thin-walled pulmonary vascular structure, and high blood flow [8]; all these phenotypes are highly correlated with physiological responses to low oxygen concentration in the air, which facilitate uninterrupted oxygen-processing and the up-regulation of erythropoiesis and angiogenesis to allow for more efficient oxygen utilization.
Evolving altitude aptitude
October 2010, update added August 2014
http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/news/101001_altitude
Some genetic studies estimate that the Tibetans split from the Han Chinese population and began migrating to the highlands less than 3000 years ago - and that all this adaptation to living tens of thousands of feet above sea level has occurred in just a hundred or so generations. If that estimate is accurate, this would represent the fastest example of human evolution yet documented.
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4. Racial Diseases
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(a) Anemia in Bantu
In Africa there is a disease, it is called falciform anemy. It is a very particular type of anemy, related only to SOME ethnic populations of Africa, mainly of Bantu descent.
Unknown in Europe, where you have other different types of anemy in respect to a different DNA pattern.
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(b) Tay Sachs in Ashkenazic Jews
Among Ashkenazi Jews, there is a type of a particular disease, it is called Tay Sachs Syndrome. It is unknown to Sephardis.
[The gene responsible provides some immunity against consumption.]
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(c) Thalassemia and Mediterranean Peoples (anti-Malaria qualities)
https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/000587.htm
Thalassemia is a blood disorder passed down through families (inherited) in which the body makes an abnormal form of hemoglobin. Hemoglobin is the protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen. The disorder results in large numbers of red blood cells being destroyed, which leads to anemia.
Thalassemia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalassemia
In Europe, the highest concentrations of the disease are found in Greece, coastal regions in Turkey (particularly the Aegean Region such as Izmir, Balikesir, Aydin, Mugla, and Mediterranean Region such as Antalya, Adana, Mersin), in parts of Italy, particularly southern Italy and the lower Po valley. The major Mediterranean islands (except the Balearics) such as Sicily, Sardinia, Malta, Corsica, Cyprus, and Crete are heavily affected in particular. Other Mediterranean people, as well as those in the vicinity of the Mediterranean, also have high rates of thalassemia, including people from West Asia and North Africa. Far from the Mediterranean, South Asians are also affected, with the world's highest concentration of carriers (30% of the population) being in the Maldives.
Nowadays, it is found in populations living in Africa, the Americas, and in Tharu people in the Terai region of Nepal and India.[33] It is believed to account for much lower malaria sicknesses and deaths,[34] accounting for the historic ability of Tharus to survive in areas with heavy malaria infestation, where others could not. Thalassemias are particularly associated with people of Mediterranean origin, Arabs (especially Palestinians and people of Palestinian descent), and Asians.[35] The Maldives has the highest incidence of thalassemia in the world with a carrier rate of 18% of the population. The estimated prevalence is 16% in people from Cyprus, 1%[36] in Thailand, and 3-8% in populations from Bangladesh, China, India, Malaysia and Pakistan. Thalassemias also occur in descendants of people from Latin America, Mediterranean countries (e.g. Greece, Italy, Spain, and others), and Portugal.
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(d) The Lack of the MTHFR gene in Hispanics, Chinese and Italians.
# In Italy there is a particular type of disease, the homocistein mutation gene MTHFR. Which is unknown in other ethnic people ( in Italy 80% of population has this mutation ). # [Accuracy of quote has been questioned.]
Ask the Doctor: Why is the MTHFR gene important?
http://www.prohealth.com/library/showarticle.cfm?libid=19386
45% of the population here in the USA have a defect in one of their genes, called the MTHFR gene, which reduces ones ability to utilize folic acid.
If folic acid doesn't get transformed properly into the body's most active form of folate, called 5-methyltetrahydrofolate (5-MTHF), then it can clog up your biochemistry causing a vast array of negative issues.
This MTHFR genetic defect especially affects Hispanics, Chinese and Italians. These three ethnic groups have a 70% reduced ability to produce 5-MTHF.
So what.
If you are not able to produce 5-MTHF from folic acid, then you won't be able to lower your homocysteine very well, reduce histamine levels, sleep well, carry a baby to term without birth defects, be calm and focused or eliminate cancer forming estrogens.
What is an MTHFR Mutation?
http://wellnessmama.com/27148/mthfr-mutation/
Some naturopathic doctors like Dr. Doni Wilson suspect that lingering fatigue, fogginess, anxiety, sleep issues and inability to deal with alcohol and other toxins effectively can be a result of an underlying gene mutation like the MTHFR mutation. She explains how this affects many aspects of health and how stress is a compounding factor:
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(e) Race and Health
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_health
Race and health refers to the relationship between individual health and one's race and ethnicity. Differences in health status, health outcomes, life expectancy, and many other indicators of health in different racial and ethnic groups is well documented, referred to as health disparities.
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5. Britons still live in Anglo-Saxon tribal kingdoms
Charlene Mathe wrote:
"DNA is revealing an amazing stability of ethnic centers from ancient times to the present."
Britons still live in Anglo-Saxon tribal kingdoms, Oxford University finds
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/03/14/britons-still-live-in-anglo-saxon-tribal-kingdoms-oxford-univers/
Extract:
Britons are still living in the same 'tribes' that they did in the 7th Century, Oxford University has found after an astonishing study into our genetic make-up.
Archaeologists and geneticists were amazed to find that genetically similar individuals inhabit the same areas they did following the Anglo-Saxon invasion, following the fall of the Roman Empire.
In fact, a map showing tribes of Britain in 600AD is almost identical to a new chart showing genetic variability throughout the UK, suggesting that local communities have stayed put for the past 1415 years.
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6. Descendants of Neil Ruled Much of Ireland
A Y-Chromosome Signature of Hegemony in Gaelic Ireland
http://www.cell.com/ajhg/abstract/S0002-9297(07)62363-5
Laoise T. Moore, Brian McEvoy, Eleanor Cape, Daniel G. Bradley
Extract::
Seventeen-marker simple tandem repeat genetic analysis of Irish Y chromosomes reveals a previously unnoted modal haplotype that peaks in frequency in the northwestern part of the island. It shows a significant association with surnames purported to have descended from the most important and enduring dynasty of early medieval Ireland, the Ui Neill. This suggests that such phylogenetic predominance is a biological record of past hegemony and supports the veracity of semimythological early genealogies. The fact that about one in five males sampled in northwestern Ireland is likely a patrilineal descendent of a single early medieval ancestor is a powerful illustration of the potential link between prolificacy and power and of how Y-chromosome phylogeography can be influenced by social selection.
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7. YDNA and Environment
Human Paternal Lineages, Languages and Environment in the Caucasus
http://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/humbiol_preprints/54/
David Tarkhnishvili, 1Center of Biodiversity Studies, Institute of Ecology, Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia
http://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/humbiol/vol86/iss2/5
Y-DNA haplogroups G2, J2, R1b, J1, and R1a.
(1) haplogroup G2 with well forested mountains;
(2) haplogroup J2 with warm areas or poorly forested mountains;
(3) haplogroup J1 with poorly forested mountains.
R1b showed no association with environment.
J1 and R1a significantly associated with Daghestanian and Kypchak speakers.