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[QUOTE]Originally posted by xyyman: [QB] Quote from Reviewers 3 -- Contrasting 3 individuals to 18 contemporary ones in order to indicate extrapolate evidence for a pattern that" 6 and 7 million Sub-Saharan slaves to Northern Africa over a span of some 1250 years” seems a strong extrapolation on its own. As the authors admit..” Line 180: "This individual had a derived allele at the SLC24A5 locus, which encodes for light skin pigmentation…” SLC24A5 is among at least 20 skin pigmentation genes known to contribute to melanin variability in contemporary human populations. It alone does not ‘encode’ for light skin pigmentation. Indeed, many individuals in Cape Verde, Africa carry this allele (which does lighten pigmentation, accounting for 7% of the variance in pigmentation) but their overall phenotype would be still be twice as dark as an average European (Beleza et al. 2013, PLoS Genetics). Note 8: Test of Population Continuity: the analysis here was not described. Other than collapsing mtDNA lineages into haplogroup frequencies to compare ancient and contemporary groups, there is no description of what the actual test was. Even if the method was described in Brandt et al. (2013) [not even in the main text, only in their supplement], the authors should lay out the assumptions -- [/QB][/QUOTE]
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