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Cypriot DNA evident in over a dozen populations
..Scientists have just published a new ‘genetic atlas’ following their discovery of 95 distinguishable populations around the world. Using this data, a team led by Simon Myers of Oxford University, Garrett Hellenthal of University College London and Daniel Falush of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, have been able to isolate different DNA markers that they can ‘cross check’ with other populations.
In this way they have been able locate the markers from other populations present in a person’s DNA, and can also use the information to track some of the historical or migrational events that have resulted in the mixing of DNA among populations. They call it ‘genetic admixture’
Even though all humans have the same set of genes, their genomes contain a number of mutations, which contain patterns passed down from parents to children and makes them common in a particular population. Using these patterns, scientists can scan a person’s genome and assign them an ancestry to a particular population or race. So although Cypriots may have mixed blood, there are markers that make them uniquely Cypriot.
Using this ‘Cypriot DNA’ pattern, the researchers were able to determine, for instance, that Hungarian people, although their DNA contains a majority of Polish and Lithuanian markers, it also contains a substantial amount of Cypriot DNA – almost 20 per cent – in those scanned.
Similarly, Romanian DNA contains mostly Lithuanian DNA, but almost equal amounts of Greek DNA and Cypriot DNA...
http://cyprus-mail.com/2014/02/06/cy...n-populations/
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