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A Near Eastern Origin of the Indo-Europeans An Internet Hoax? Observations on the Writings of a Confused Genome Blogger
Dienekes has been campaigning for a while for the Indo-European homeland in West Asia or the Near East. I usually dont actively discuss the origin of Indo-Europeans and technically this question falls outside of the theme for this blog. But this time around I cannot help but expose the the rare species of nonsense that Dienekess claim contains. Razib first trumpeted Dienekess finding in the loud manner of a good old paperboy (The Mystery of the Origin of the Indo-Europeans May Be Solved Within the Next Two Years). In this post he proclaims that within the next few years we may solve the mystery of the demographic origin of Indo-European languages and culture through genetics. A couple of days later, he, again, applauded Dienekess efforts by writing a post entitled Has Dienekes Pontikos Found the Signature of the Indo-Europeans in which he wanted to give him full credit in the public record if researchers confirm his findings in the next few years. GCochran commented obtusely to the effect that Dienekes is the Galileo of science.
Dienekes and Razib have been in the You scratch my back, I scra
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Abstract
The Genographic Project is an international effort aimed at charting human migratory history. The project is nonprofit and nonmedical, and, through its Legacy Fund, supports locally led efforts to preserve indigenous and traditional cultures. Although the first phase of the project was focused on uniparentally inherited markers on the Y-chromosome and mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), the current phase focuses on markers from across the entire genome to obtain a more complete understanding of human genetic variation. Although many commercial arrays exist for genome-wide single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) genotyping, they were designed for medical genetic studies and contain medically related markers that are inappropriate for global population genetic studies. GenoChip, the Genographic Project’s new genotyping array, was designed to resolve these issues and enable higher resolution research into outstanding questions in genetic anthropology. The GenoChip includes ancestry informative markers obtained for over human populations, an ancient human (Saqqaq), and two archaic hominins (Neanderthal and Denisovan) and was designed to identify all known Y-chromosome and mtDNA haplogroups. The chip was carefully vetted to avoid inclusion of medically relevant markers. To demonstrat
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And, here's a comparison foothold the communication and inherited (based project Y-chromosomes) unpleasant from depiction paper:
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