tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2074422985363924559.post1352176544380915382..comments2023-08-26T09:41:34.197-06:00Comments on Africa: Rare Analyses and Knowledge-base: U6: A standalone clade?Mystery Solverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06985949344472336362noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2074422985363924559.post-46345965386484067422011-01-03T22:08:11.108-07:002011-01-03T22:08:11.108-07:00Maju writes:
I strongly recommend you to get fami...Maju writes:<br /><br /><i>I strongly recommend you to get familiar with PhyloTree, which is nowadays "the ISOGG of mtDNA", so to say.</i><br /><br />I strongly urge you to <b>very carefully</b> read what is posted before parceling out gratuitous advises that don't follow the topic.<br /><br /><i>U6 shares with all other U lineages the mutations at sites 11467, 12308 and 12372. WhatMystery Solverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06985949344472336362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2074422985363924559.post-81973541150247239272010-12-22T10:21:53.468-07:002010-12-22T10:21:53.468-07:00I strongly recommend you to get familiar with Phyl...I strongly recommend you to get familiar with <a href="http://www.phylotree.org/" rel="nofollow">PhyloTree</a>, which is nowadays "the ISOGG of mtDNA", so to say. <br /><br />Before 2009, when this site was created, there was a lot of confusion and lack of good reference sites on mtDNA phylogeny, fortunately now this site helps a lot in getting things straight (regardless of whatever Majuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12369840391933337204noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2074422985363924559.post-41175792393762311232008-09-07T12:53:00.000-06:002008-09-07T12:53:00.000-06:00THIS QUOTE IS WORTH REPEATING:"Well, it would be m...THIS QUOTE IS WORTH REPEATING:<BR/><BR/><BR/><B>"Well, it would be misleading to those who are not adequately read in genetics; it is designed to mislead such people. Sanchez et al. say "East Africans are more related to more related to Eurasians than sub-Saharan Africans" supposedly on the basis that they share certain markers like Hg K and Hg J with their neighbors across the Red Sea, which Research datahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03196376215603452760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2074422985363924559.post-82065794915760093992008-09-07T03:31:00.000-06:002008-09-07T03:31:00.000-06:00proud canadian writes:How do you see the DNA backl...proud canadian writes:<BR/><BR/><I>How do you see the DNA backlfow theories positing the arrival of Eurasian races into Africa based on what you post about U6? Some argue that after the Out of Africa movement, races evolved, then doubled back to east/north Africa in the form of Caucasoids, Hamites or Mediterraneans, thereby bringing genetic diversity to the natives.</I><BR/><BR/>U6 itself doesn'tMystery Solverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06985949344472336362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2074422985363924559.post-14565653106887635422008-09-07T03:12:00.000-06:002008-09-07T03:12:00.000-06:00Recap: proud canadian writes:4) How do you see the...Recap: <BR/><BR/>proud canadian writes:<BR/><BR/>4) How do you see the Gurna study below? It mentions M1 - <B>"a more specific 2004 mtDNA study of upper Egyptians from Gurna performed found a genetic ancestral heritage to modern East Africans, characterized by a high M1 haplotype frequency."</B> (Stevanovitch A, Gilles A, Bouzaid E, et al, "Mitochondrial DNA sequence diversity in a sedentary Mystery Solverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06985949344472336362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2074422985363924559.post-43169855513908234382008-09-07T03:10:00.000-06:002008-09-07T03:10:00.000-06:00proud canadian writes:You rightly point out how te...proud canadian writes:<BR/><BR/><I>You rightly point out how tenuous these claims are, but too often, in their summaries, they make misleading "sound bite" statements, feeding perceptions along certain racial lines.</I><BR/><BR/>A. Gonzalez's claims go beyond just "misleading sound bite statements"; they make arguments throughout their study, which do not hold up to scrutiny, as I have amply Mystery Solverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06985949344472336362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2074422985363924559.post-1965258640263252592008-09-06T18:56:00.000-06:002008-09-06T18:56:00.000-06:00It seems to me that the Semino study is much more ...It seems to me that the Semino study is much more solidly based that Gonzalez's more speculative conclusions, and the highest frequencies even she herself notes occurs among Africans, and little among Asians to support the Asiatic origin hypothesis. As you stated:<BR/><BR/>A total of 50 Europeans detected for M1.<BR/>A total of 154 for Africans.<BR/>A total of 28 Asians, barring 8 unknown ArabianResearch datahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03196376215603452760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2074422985363924559.post-9163074193105679852008-09-06T18:02:00.000-06:002008-09-06T18:02:00.000-06:00How do you see the DNA backlfow theories positing ...How do you see the DNA backlfow theories positing the arrival of Eurasian races into Africa based on what you post about U6? Some argue that after the Out of Africa movement, races evolved, then doubled back to east/north Africa in the form of Caucasoids, Hamites or Mediterraneans, thereby bringing genetic diversity to the natives.Research datahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03196376215603452760noreply@blogger.com