Tukuler
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Well, it's certainly all skewed. Here's how Euro-vision is part and parcel of the hard science. This is magnitudes worse than the rCRS for mtDNA but normal in anthropology.
"A new study of DNA from people of African descent shows just how much the reference genome is missing: Scientists found across the 910 people in their study 300 million letters of DNA that are not in the reference genome. Some of these newfound segments of DNA could represent new genes that were previously overlooked.
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The biggest contributor to the reference genome was an African-American man from Buffalo. Any individual will have structural variants that aren't in the reference genome, but of course Africans collectively have the most.
Where's this GBR in Atlantic-speaking Africans anyway?
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Tukuler
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Depending how you build a reference genome.
Whatcha think about that genomic project just completed collecting samples over this past decade?
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Which one do you mean? - I can't keep track of it all. (I'm looking forward to results from the Ugandan 2000 Genomes Project.)
Oh yeah, Busby et al. In MALDER could just be a proxy for North Africans, but I have no idea why North Europeans would work better than South Europeans as haplotype donors in GLOBETROTTER.
I suspect, though this is way beyond my pay grade, that a lot of the non-specific Eurasian and Khoisan stuff is proxy for admixture between different African components that are somewhat related to them.
Anyway, Merry Christmas! I'm off to the frozen north.
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Tukuler
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100,000 Genomes
Thx 4/t holiday greeting; returned . tho my winter lights celeb has passed.
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