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Peterski
10-06-2017, 01:29 AM
Two new papers on Neanderthal DNA:

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2017/10/04/science.aao1887.full

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/10/your-neandertal-dna-making-your-belly-fat-ancient-genome-offers-clues

Magical Russian version: HERE (http://sci-hub.cc/http://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2017/10/04/science.aao1887.full).

And the second study:

http://www.cell.com/ajhg/fulltext/S0002-9297(17)30379-8

"(...) Here, we show that Neanderthal DNA affects skin tone and hair color, height, sleeping patterns, mood, and smoking status in present-day Europeans. Interestingly, multiple Neanderthal alleles at different loci contribute to skin and hair color in present-day Europeans, and these Neanderthal alleles contribute to both lighter and darker skin tones and hair color, suggesting that Neanderthals themselves were most likely variable in these traits. (...) Strikingly, more than half of the significantly associated alleles that we identified are related to skin and hair traits, consistent with previous evidence that genes associated with skin and hair biology are over-represented in introgressed archaic regions. (...)"

Grab the Gauge
10-06-2017, 01:55 AM
All this does is confirm to me that modern science is unreplicable and untrustworhy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis), especially genetics. A few years ago it was reported that Europeans did not inherit pale skins and blond/red hair from Neanderthals, this paper doesn't reconcile with that. So I will never again take anything seriously I read about archaic genetics or population genetics in general.

AphroditeWorshiper
10-06-2017, 02:04 AM
All this does is confirm to me that modern science is unreplicable and untrustworhy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis), especially genetics. A few years ago it was reported that Europeans did not inherit pale skins and blond/red hair from Neanderthals, this paper doesn't reconcile with that. So I will never again take anything seriously I read about archaic genetics or population genetics in general.

do I look Neanderthal?

Hamlet
10-06-2017, 02:10 AM
Does the paper relate red and blonde hair in modern Europeans to Neanderthals?