Khoisan South Africans acquired light skin gene from admixture with Cushitic pastoralists

[World]

According to science.

“Skin pigmentation is under strong directional selection for reduced melanin density in northern European and Asian populations. Conversely, dark pigmentation is thought to be under stabilizing selection in equatorial populations exposed to intense ultraviolet radiation. We high-throughput sequenced pigmentation genes in over 400 individuals from South Africa and demonstrate that a canonical skin pigmentation gene, SLC24A5, experienced recent adaptive evolution in the KhoeSan populations of far southern Africa. The functionally caustive allele lightens basal skin pigmentation by 4 melanin units, explaining 11.9% variance in pigmentation in these populations. Haplotype analysis and demographic models indicate that the allele was introduced into the KhoeSan only within the past 3,000 years likely by eastern African pastoralists. The most common haplotype is shared among the KhoeSan, eastern Africans and Europeans but has risen to a frequency of 25%, far greater than expected given initial gene flow. The SLC24A5 locus is a rare example of strong, ongoing adaptation in very recent human history.”

http://meeting.physanth.org/program...ter-skin-pigmentation-in-southern-africa.html

 

[World]

 

[SumMo]

Ok, and this is important news because..?

 

[World]

Ok, and this is important news because..?

Posting on my threads won’t make me reply to your dms

 

[SumMo]

Posting on my threads won’t make me reply to your dms

 

[World]

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Your obsessive behaviour with me is even more sickening

 

[SumMo]

Your obsessive behaviour with me is even more sickening

Are you resorting to trolling because you can’t answer my question?

How mature..

 

[World]

Are you resorting to trolling because you can’t answer my question?

How mature..

If you don’t find science and genetics interesting then feel free to leave the thread

 

[Vanessa]

Cushitics were light skin?

 

[Kudhufo Kadhaqaq]

Cushitics were light skin?

The guy is a xoolo abaayo lol.

 

[World]

The guy is a xoolo abaayo lol.

How am I a xoolo for posting a peer reviewed study by Harvard?

If you have any problem with these findings then take it up with them:

“Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston”.

Just don’t forget to tell them that you have no background whatsoever in genetics, biology and heck even science.

 

[World]

Cushitics were light skin?

Cushitics have the light skin gene “SLC24A5” responsible for a 1/3rd of the depigmentation between Europeans and non-admixed Africans.

 

[jamal9]

This is light skinned? Somebody needs prescription eye glasses.

 

[Kudhufo Kadhaqaq]

How am I a xoolo for posting a peer reviewed study by Harvard?

If you have any problem with these findings then take it up with them:

“Analytic and Translational Genetics Unit, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston”.

Just don’t forget to tell them that you have no background whatsoever in genetics, biology and heck even science.

Seems like my beautiful comment hit an ugly nerve

 

[World]

Low IQ Somalis are the only people to discredit peer reviewed studies from Harvard for their own dogma.

 

[Arma]

Yep, for sure this @World is the same person as @Amun . What happened to your old nic?

 

[roble]

and where is the Chinese factor from.

 

[Basra]

That's a good question actually. How come they are extremely light skin, but have the quintessential adoon features like large flat noses, and bee nappy hair. Very interesting

 

[Keo]

3rd one is an anomaly

 

[World]

That's a good question actually. How come they are extremely light skin, but have the quintessential adoon features like large flat noses, and bee nappy hair. Very interesting

As you can see, South Africa where the Khoisan live is located quite far from the equator. The weather is really cool and can get really cold down there. So after acquiring the light skin gene from Cushitic pastoralists, local climate pressures which is absent in the the hot and arid Somalia gave them lighter skin.