The derived allele of the KITLG SNP rs12821256 that is associated with – and likely causal for – blond hair in Europeans [4,5] is present in one hunter-gatherer from each of Samara, Motala and Ukraine (I0124, I0014 and I1763), as well as several later individuals with Steppe ancestry. Since the allele is found in populations with EHG but not WHG ancestry, it suggests that its origin is in the Ancient North Eurasian (ANE) population. Consistent with this, we observe that earliest known individual with the derived allele is the [Siberian] ANE individual Afontova Gora 3 which is directly dated to 16130-15749 cal BCE (14710±60 BP, MAMS-27186: a previously unpublished date that we newly report here).
[Ukraine, Motala-Sweden, Samara-Russia = Black Sea North to Baltic Sea
Why don't you talk about the mouse they used to experiment on to determine KITLG was responsible for Eurobino blond hair?
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I posted on this on Davidski and it was deleted. The IRF4/kitlg gene ?(derived) is also found in Africa amongst SSA. I believe they used HGDP and not the more extensive databases to come to that conclusion. MKK and LKK carry about 2-3% of the "blonde" gene. Screwed up Europeans as usual with their fantastical beliefs. Lol!
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