Genetic Makeup in E. Asia (blood type Gm gene)

The Daily China ^

[TigerLikesRooster]

It appears that they could not collect samples from N. Korea. People from Japan, S. Korea, and N.E. China shows pretty much the same genetic makeup. It is interesting that Tibetans also share it, too.

The genetic makeup of those living in Xinjiang is quite similiar to those in N. India.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Ping!

[2banana]

This means US colleges will have even more means at their disposal to keep their numbers low for diversity...

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Tigerlikesrooster. What does this graphic indicate, vis a vis the blood types found? The types in most of the world are of the ABO family (with some oddities, such as Bombay syndrome I think it's called), with a small number of people (Indian subcontinent mostly) of the MN family (and the Rh factor is common to both families I believe).

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[Wuli]

Is Tibet really that surprising? When was the genetic survey done? In Tibet, what is the remaining % of "native" Tibetans to the % of "Tibetan" people the Han has forceably settled into Tibet from other Chinese provinces in the last five decades?

[Blue Champagne]

Lots of interesting reading for the GGG list today. Thanks for the pings.

[Betis70]

Do you happen to have the original story, or is it just the map? My sis-in-law is Chinese and a biologist, so I'd like to get a translation/synopsis from her.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Re #7

I just have this map, not the book from which it came out. His name is lower right hand corner of the picture. It is in Chinese characters, though.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Re #7

By the way, the author is a Japanese.

[Betis70]

She speaks Japanese too (and some German and Spanish in addition to being fluent in Mandarin, Cantonese, and English).

I'll send it along to her, thanks.

[GOP_1900AD]

Brings to mind the whole SARS epidemic. Most of those affected had lots of the "red" coded type. I saw a theory that even though SARS appeared to be "natural" one cannot rule out that it might have been planted into nature by northerners wanting to attack Fujianese (and therefore, Taiwan).

[Plutarch]

Japanese tend to view Koreans as inferior , however, they certainly don’t appear to have much genetic difference.

However, even 50 years of history, the Koreans who make up Japan's largest minority group have not become socially well-accepted. ...There are many reasons for discrimination. Koreans are considered inferior. Ethnic relationships between the Japanese and Koreans in Japan are still very poor.

[Renfield]

Thanks. I find ethnography fascinating...I almost became an anthropologist or lingquist.

[litehaus]

"Ethnic relationships between the Japanese and Koreans in Japan are still very poor."

Wanna guess bout Polish, Swedes,Irish,Italian, Black in South Chicago over the last 100 years?

Surprise! U R Rite!.... BAD!!!!!

[Betis70]

She found a website that explains some of it:

http://www.dai3gen.net/epage7a.htm

Dr. H. Matsumoto's paper is available in English at "The Japanese Journal of Human Genetics" Vo. 13, No.1, pp 10-19,1968. The title is "Gm factors in Japan:Population and Family Studies with statistical appendix."

[Betis70]

I found this poking around the site I linked to in the above post:

Characteristics of Mongoloid populations based on the human immunoglobulin allotypes.

Matsumoto H Department of Legal Medicine, Osaka Medical College, Japan.

Since the discovery of Gm ab3st haplotype which characterizes Mongoloid populations in 1966, the distribution of the genetic markers of immunoglobulins (Gm) among the Mongoloid populations scattered from Southeast Asia through East Asia to South America has been investigated and concluded as follows:

1) Mongoloid populations characterized by the four Gm haplotypes, ag, axg, ab3st and afb1b3 are divided into two groups on the basis of analysis of genetic distances based on the Gm haplotype frequencies: one is a southern group characterized by a remarkably high frequency of Gm afb1b3 and a low frequency of Gm ag and the other is a northern group characterized by a high frequency of Gm a and an extremely low frequency of Gm afb1b3.

2) Populations in China, mainly Han including minority nationalities, show remarkable heterogeneities from north to south, in sharp contrast to Korean and Japanese populations showing homogeneities, respectively. The center of dispersion of the Gm afb1b3 characterizing southern Mongoloids must exist in Guangxi and Yunnan area in the southwest China.

3) The Gm ab3st gene found in the highest incidence among the north Baikal Buriats flows in all directions. The gene, however, shows precipitous drop which occur from mainland China to Southeast Asia and from North to South-America, although the Gm ab3st gene is still found in high incidences among Eskimos, Yakuts, Tibetans, Olunchuns, Koreans, Japanese and Ainus. On the other hand, the gene is introduced into Huis, Uighurs, Indians, Iranians and far Hungarians.

[TigerLikesRooster]

Re #16

Thanks for providing more details on this. It is really interesting.

[SunkenCiv]

You're welcome, and thank you for the kind remarks.

[SunkenCiv]

"although the Gm ab3st gene is still found in high incidences among Eskimos, Yakuts, Tibetans, Olunchuns, Koreans, Japanese and Ainus. On the other hand, the gene is introduced into Huis, Uighurs, Indians, Iranians and far Hungarians."

Heh heh... The Eskimos must be late arrivals, since the southern populations don't have it. The Huns may have carried it to the Hungarians (and presumably, the Finns?).

Blam: chant with me, "multiregionalism, and no isolationism, multiregionalism, and no isolationism..."

[nopardons]

What in the world is a "far" Hungarian?