Brit-Am Anthropology and DNA Update
Contents:
1. Ashkenazi Genetics
2. Different DNA and DNA Haplotype (Ancestral Divisions) Mutation Rates
3. DNA of Canaanites in Ancient Jericho
4. New Research Shows that Some Ancient Egyptians Were Naturally Fair-Haired
5. How common are high cheekbones among white people? Jews and the Scottish
6. Genetic Problems in Present-Day Ireland
7. More on Blondes in Ancient Egypt
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1. Ashkenazi Genetics
What are some interesting facts about Jews?
https://www.quora.com/q/lkobniywtkbmacuo?__filter__=&__ni__=0&__nsrc__=2&__tiid__=4015891
by Nathan Tesker
Extract
Ashkenazi Genetics
Ashkenazi Jews are Jews descended from those Jews who migrated from the land of Israel into Italy and eventually lived in other parts of Europe. They, including myself, are heavily predisposed to many autosomal recessive genetic diseases, such as Gaucher Disease, Cystic Fibrosis, Tay-Sachs, Familial Dysautonomia, Spinal Muscular Atrophy, and so on. Why?
Limited Initial Gene Pool: Researchers found that all Ashkenazi Jews are descended from roughly 350 people and are 30th cousins at the farthest.[3]Thus, they have similar genes.
Lack of Outside Genes: It is forbidden for Jews to marry gentiles by Jewish religious law. Furthermore, proselytizing is not allowed and Jews actively discourage people from converting. Thus, the gene pool did not expand significantly.
Toss into this the fact that there was no Internet which allowed for long-distance relationships a significant distance away, and the result is that Ashkenazis had no choice but to marry other Ashkenazim. Thus, our genes suck.
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2. Different DNA and DNA Haplotype (Ancestral Divisions) Mutation Rates
An Overview and Discussion of Various DNA Mutation Rates and DNA Haplotype Mutation Rates.
Do the YSTR Haplotypes in some Y Chromosome Male Lines Mutate Faster Than in Other Male Lines?
http://www.kerchner.com/dnamutationrates.htm
By: Charles F. Kerchner, Jr., P.E. (Retired)
Written: 7 Jan 2005
[Forwarded by Mark Williams]
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3. DNA of Canaanites in Ancient Jericho
What was the genetics of inhabitants of Jericho? How different were they from later Semitic inhabitants of the region?
Walter Smyth
The first peoples to reside in the area of Jericho was the Natufians about 10 000 years ago. They carried Haplogroup E1B1B. They were replaced and assimilated by the Canaanites who are the ancestors of the modern peoples of the Levant. The Hebrew, Aramaic and Phoenician languages originated from the Canaanite Language. The Canaanites carried Haplogroup J just like their modern descendants:
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4. New Research Shows that Some Ancient Egyptians Were Naturally Fair-Haired
https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/new-research-shows-some-ancient-egyptians-were-naturally-fair-haired-005812
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According to Dr. Janet Davey from the Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine in Australia, some ancient Egyptians were naturally blonde or red haired. Her research has brought an answer to an intriguing question connected with Egyptian mummies and the effects of the mummification process.
An article published recently by The Sydney Morning Herald says that the mystery of the red and blonde hair discovered on some ancient Egyptian mummies may finally be solved. The new research was necessary to check the common perception that no ancient Egyptians had hair that wasn't colored dark brown or black. Until now, most researchers had claimed that the different colors of the mummy hair were a result of the mummification process itself.
Dr. Davey is convinced that there were fair-haired Egyptians, but believes that the fair-haired mummies are just very rare. This is why Egyptologists used to believe that lighter hair color was created during the mummification process. Moreover, Davey suggests that there were blondes living in Egypt during the Graeco-Roman Period (332 BC - 395 AD).
"Some ancient Egyptians could have been blue-eyed blondes or brown-eyed blondes. I wouldn't say ancient Egypt was multi-cultural like Australia today but certainly there were various mixes." - she said.
The well-preserved mummy of a man was excavated by Wallis Budge in the end of the 19th century. Nowadays, it is exhibited in the British Museum. The mummy was nicknamed '' The Ginger '', due to the color of its hair. The man was mummified naturally, without the use of natron. He was buried at the desert necropolis in Gebelein, Egypt. The mummy of 'The Ginger' sheds light on the very early history of Egypt, and suggests that people who created the Egyptian civilizations could have been blonde or red haired too.
On December 14, 2014 Ancient Origins reported on a remarkable discovery in Fag el-Gamous necropolis, which lies along the eastern edge of the Fayum depression near Seila in Egypt and dates to the time when the Roman or Byzantine Empire controlled Egypt, from the 1st to the 7th century AD.
It is an enormous cemetery that is believed to contain over one million burials of ordinary Egyptian citizens that were naturally mummified by the hot and dry desert sands over 1,500 years ago. Over three decades of excavations by Brigham Young University in Utah revealed some incredible finds, such as the remains of large male over 7 feet (2.13 meters) tall, an infant child that was discovered wearing a tunic and jewelry, and unique groupings of burials clustered according to hair color, including blond and redheaded mummies.
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5. How common are high cheekbones among white people?
https://www.quora.com/profile/Claire-Jordan-10
Claire Jordan
Depends where you come from. There's a particular cat-like, heart-shaped, high-cheek-boned face I've seen in German Jews and Scottish Highlanders, for example, and people from south west Ireland often have very craggy facial bones.
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6. Genetic Problems in Present-Day Ireland
What is the greatest natural wonder in Ireland?
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-greatest-natural-wonder-in-Ireland
Lucas Lundstrom
Extract:
The Irish people.
Everyone who could - left.
They went to America, or in some cases elsewhere to avoid one of the most serious threat of mass starvation a European country has been hit by.
The ones who remained to slowly re-populate were perhaps not the best suited to do so. They are still no-where near back to the level of population they had back in for instance the mid 1800s, but make up for it in interesting natural wonder of genetics ways. People watching in Ireland is amazing.
In Ireland there are over one per mille, that is 1/1000, hermaphrodites.
Kyphosis sufferers, actual untreated hunchbacks, are still around and are not that rare.
Little people are so much more common than International norm that it is not unlikely to meet them when just going on a shopping trip to your local Dunnes food store. They were also a significant part of the major little people acting crews in films such as The Wizard of Oz (1939) despite having such a small population in general.
The Irish Disese, the genetic disorder Hereditary Haemochromatosis is a disorder which is characterised by iron overload, and is characterized by feeling very tired all the time (fatigue), weight loss, weakness, joint pain, in men an inability to get or maintain an erection (erectile dysfunction) and in women, irregular periods or absent periods.
People with webbed fingers and toes, people who are gingers, and people who are muggles, are perfectly commonplace.
'Diseases, such as cystic fibrosis, coeliac disease and multiple sclerosis, are more common in Ireland compared to mainland European populations.'
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7. More on Blondes in Ancient Egypt
Fagg El Gamous
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fagg_El_Gamous
Extracts:
Fagg El Gamous (translated Way of the Buffalo) is an ancient Egyptian cemetery located in the Faiyum Governorate dating from the 1st to the 7th century AD, the period of Roman rule in Egypt.
The cemetery was discovered by a team of archeologists from Brigham Young University in 1980. They were given sole responsibility for the excavation in 1981.
The excavations are done under time-pressure due to threat of incursion by local farmers who wish to expand their fields across the cemetery.[1]
The skeletons and natural mummies (i.e. not the result of a professional mummification as used for royalty), seem to be common people; "The bodies have been well preserved, so the organs and remains are virtually complete. The preservation results from sealing in the moisture and the atmosphere of the burial spot."[2] By 2014 roughly 1,000 bodies had been excavated at the site.[2]
In 1988 it was noted by the researchers that the graveyard contained an unexpected number of blondes amongst the naturally mummified bodies, as well as oddities in tooth decay amongst the buried; "Of those whose hair was preserved 54% were blondes or redheads, and the percentage grows to 87% when light-brown hair color is added".[3] In 2014 it was revealed that burials seem to be clustered by hair-colour, those with red-hair are in one area, those with blonde hair in another.[1]
In 2014 the BYU team claimed that the cemetery contains over a million mummies.[4][5]