Comments on: Really fine grained genetic maps of Europe http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2010/07/really-fine-grained-genetic-maps-of-europe/ Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:48:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Razib Khan http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2010/07/really-fine-grained-genetic-maps-of-europe/#comment-23137 Razib Khan Fri, 16 Jul 2010 05:41:34 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=4916#comment-23137 the wording is off, so yeah, i see your point. but i think the gist of the point is clear. the wording is off, so yeah, i see your point. but i think the gist of the point is clear.

]]> By: ziel http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2010/07/really-fine-grained-genetic-maps-of-europe/#comment-23136 ziel Fri, 16 Jul 2010 04:40:28 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=4916#comment-23136 "...are journalists likely to take the point that the <b>two genetic components</b> revealed by the authors represent just 0.45% of European genetic variability? That is, that 99.55% of the genetic variability is left aside in the figures and is not correlated with geography?" Does this guy know what he's talking about? “…are journalists likely to take the point that the two genetic components revealed by the authors represent just 0.45% of European genetic variability? That is, that 99.55% of the genetic variability is left aside in the figures and is not correlated with geography?”

Does this guy know what he’s talking about?

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]]> By: Eleanor http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2010/07/really-fine-grained-genetic-maps-of-europe/#comment-23134 Eleanor Thu, 15 Jul 2010 14:57:08 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/?p=4916#comment-23134 I find these papers fascinating, but think it worth quoting from the letter in Nature which comments on the Novembre paper: "This paper is remarkable, but are journalists likely to take the point that the two genetic components revealed by the authors represent just 0.45% of European genetic variability? That is, that 99.55% of the genetic variability is left aside in the figures and is not correlated with geography? Will they realize that the genetic maps were drawn from a subset of 1,387 in 3,192, from which individuals had been removed who had grandparental ancestry encompassing different regions?" http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v455/n7215/full/455861b.html You have to look at individuals from highly sedentary families to notice these genetic patterns, and even then the genetic differentiation is teeeeeny. Highly cool, none the less. I find these papers fascinating, but think it worth quoting from the letter in Nature which comments on the Novembre paper:

“This paper is remarkable, but are journalists likely to take the point that the two genetic components revealed by the authors represent just 0.45% of European genetic variability? That is, that 99.55% of the genetic variability is left aside in the figures and is not correlated with geography? Will they realize that the genetic maps were drawn from a subset of 1,387 in 3,192, from which individuals had been removed who had grandparental ancestry encompassing different regions?” http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v455/n7215/full/455861b.html

You have to look at individuals from highly sedentary families to notice these genetic patterns, and even then the genetic differentiation is teeeeeny. Highly cool, none the less.

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