Blond hair originated from ANE, not from WHG

[Peterski]

From Supplementary material of one of new papers:

http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2017/05/09/135616

http://biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/s...1/135616-1.pdf

The derived allele of the KITLG SNP rs12821256 that is associated with – and likely causal for – blond hair in Europeans is present in one hunter-gatherer from each of Samara, Motala and Ukraine (I0124, I0014 and I1763), as well as several later individuals with Steppe ancestry. Since the allele is found in populations with EHG but not WHG ancestry, it suggests that its origin is in the Ancient North Eurasian (ANE) population. Consistent with this, we observe that earliest known individual with the derived allele is the ANE individual AfontovaGora 3, which is directly dated to 16130-15749 cal BCE (14710±60 BP, MAMS-27186: a previously unpublished date that we newly report here).

XenophobicPrussian - what do you think? Nordic Amerindians?

[Źıün]

Yeah... I actually remember this.

[Lucas]

You said Motala?

[de Burgh II]

That means I'm a good-for-nuttin' mongoloid!

Spoiler!

Jk. lol!

[Norse]

I guess the Artic Urheimat of the Aryans is right after all huh?

[Peterski]

I guess the Artic Urheimat of the Aryans is right after all huh?

As well as the Aryan-Amerindian connection!:



I wonder why Amerindians don't have blondes.

[Norse]

As well as the Aryan-Amerindian connection!:



I wonder why Amerindians don't have blondes.

Are you being serious or not? I don't know.

[Pahli]

As well as the Aryan-Amerindian connection!:



I wonder why Amerindians don't have blondes.

Because Amerindians are too dark, try to google Aleut people, they could resemble ANE in some way.

[RN97]

As well as the Aryan-Amerindian connection!:



I wonder why Amerindians don't have blondes.

Is the ANE in Europeans the same as the one in Amerindians? Isn't it like how neanderthal is sometimes interpreted as SSA or nah?

[Peterski]

Is the ANE in Europeans the same as the one in Amerindians?

ANE existed as an unmixed population probably between ca. 25 and 15 thousand years ago.

And it seems that blond hair emerged among them around 16 thousand years ago. So I'm guessing that some part of ANEs migrated towards Beringia before blond hair emerged among other ANEs.

Which would explain why Amerindians don't have blond genes despite having ANE ancestry.

Are you being serious or not? I don't know.

Yes, Amerindians have ANE ancestry as well.