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East Asian Physical Traits Linked to 35,000-Year-Old Mutation
NY Times ^ | February 14, 2013 | NICHOLAS WADE

Posted on 02/15/2013 1:33:40 AM PST by Pharmboy

Gaining a deep insight into human evolution, researchers have identified a mutation in a critical human gene as the source of several distinctive traits that make East Asians different from other races.

Researchers have identified a mutation in a gene that confers several distinct traits to East Asians, including thicker hair.

The traits — thicker hair shafts, more sweat glands, characteristically identified teeth and smaller breasts — are the result of a gene mutation that occurred about 35,000 years ago, the researchers have concluded.

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The first of those sites to be studied contains the gene known as EDAR. Africans and Europeans carry the standard version of the gene, but in most East Asians, one of the DNA units has mutated.

Seeking to understand if the gene was the cause of thicker hair in East Asians with the variant gene, a team of researchers led by Yana G. Kamberov and Pardis C. Sabeti at the Broad Institute in Cambridge, Mass., decided to test the gene in mice, where its effects could be more easily explored.

...The Broad team engineered a strain of mice whose EDAR gene had the same DNA change as the East Asian version of EDAR.

When the mice grew up, the researchers found they did indeed have thicker hair shafts, confirming that the changed gene was the cause of East Asians’ thicker hair. But the gene had several other effects, they report in Thursday’s issue of the journal Cell.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


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KEYWORDS: genes; godsgravesglyphs; helixmakemineadouble; humanevolution; races
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This is a breakthrough...but I thought the NY Times had said there ere no such things as races?
1 posted on 02/15/2013 1:33:45 AM PST by Pharmboy
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To: thefactor; blam; martin_fierro; SunkenCiv; neverdem

Gene ping for thick hair and small breasts.


2 posted on 02/15/2013 1:36:28 AM PST by Pharmboy (Democrats lie because they must.)
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To: Pharmboy

Evilution is a satanic lie


3 posted on 02/15/2013 1:43:07 AM PST by Psiman
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Hmph....so much for that created equal jazz.


4 posted on 02/15/2013 1:55:41 AM PST by edpc (Wilby 2012)
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Interesting how subject to change we are. Wonder about intelligence. East Asians perform better on IQ tests than Europeans and Africans.


5 posted on 02/15/2013 2:16:54 AM PST by ZULU (See: http://gatesofvienna.net/)
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To: Pharmboy

But a second researcher had a different explanation and a third researcher had still another idea. And someone else will offer up more.

Who is going to tell the East Asian women they can’t be on the Swedish Bikini Team because they have a mutation?


6 posted on 02/15/2013 2:21:44 AM PST by count-your-change (you don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough)
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I guess the gene mutation also makes you smarter!


7 posted on 02/15/2013 2:34:50 AM PST by Cowboy Bob (Soon the "invisible hand" will press the economic "reset" button.)
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The evolution theory leaves a couple of questions. If man first evolved in Africa, why aren’t Africans away ahead of the rest of us in intelligence and accomplishments? Why did Africans not develop their rich continent?


8 posted on 02/15/2013 3:16:43 AM PST by abclily
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Maybe other peoples developed differently, simply because they left - and were exposed to different challenges, as it were. Or maybe those that left self selected, based on a gene mutation prior to leaving.

Who knows.


9 posted on 02/15/2013 3:26:03 AM PST by patton (Tinker toys, watches, and shiny things - we all sell rocks for a living.)
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Funny if how Ron Paul said there were different races everyone would immediately call him a racist...


10 posted on 02/15/2013 4:16:50 AM PST by patrick3000
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Yes...facts are facts and the discovered mutation is just that. And the reason for its arising? Random mutation. And the reason why it spread so quickly and took hold in this population? Speculation.


11 posted on 02/15/2013 4:20:12 AM PST by Pharmboy (Democrats lie because they must.)
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Finns do better on those tests than East Asians, or anybody else. Ashkenazim Jews do second best.

Finns and Jews are not Chinese.

Note, the 35,000 year period was part of an interstadial in the glacial period so it wasn't exactly hot and sweaty! looking forward from that time to 24,000 years ago at the glacial maximum, that meant the Chinese weren't even living in China for most of that period.

The current theory is that the people who became Europeans and Chinese separated 35,000 years ago somewhere in central Asia.

The thicker hair event occurred in the last place all the Chinese, Japanese, Thai, American Indians and others lived in the same place ~ which is in Siberia not far from Lake Baikal ~ but even then the Chinese didn't live in China.

12 posted on 02/15/2013 4:21:54 AM PST by muawiyah
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Exactly! Could have been men lost interest in women's breasts ~ bwahahahaha!!!!!!

This is actually a great case or putting an end to the 'sexual selection' theory!

13 posted on 02/15/2013 4:23:41 AM PST by muawiyah
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This is actually ONE RACE, different hair!


14 posted on 02/15/2013 4:24:32 AM PST by muawiyah
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To: Cowboy Bob

Wow, what a way to start the day...to find out that your wife is a mutant.
I’ve got to admit though, I’ve had my suspicions.


15 posted on 02/15/2013 4:38:04 AM PST by Ouchthatonehurt ("When you're going through hell, keep going." - Sir Winston Churchill)
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To: Pharmboy

bookmark


16 posted on 02/15/2013 4:47:31 AM PST by silverleaf (Age Takes a Toll: Please Have Exact Change)
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WOW! WHAT A MUTATION!


17 posted on 02/15/2013 5:08:12 AM PST by MuttTheHoople (Pray for Joe Biden- Proverbs 29:9)
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Seriously, this “mutation” could’ve happened shortly after the tribes wandered away from the Tower of Babel...read Genesis for this account.


18 posted on 02/15/2013 5:09:35 AM PST by MuttTheHoople (Pray for Joe Biden- Proverbs 29:9)
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To: abclily

Maybe because the smart one recognized the hole Africa is and left....


19 posted on 02/15/2013 5:20:59 AM PST by fuente
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The less intelligent ones stayed.


20 posted on 02/15/2013 5:28:14 AM PST by Palio di Siena
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