Genetic Linkages Between West Africa and Ancient Greece:
HLA genes allele distribution has been studied in Mediterranean and sub-Saharan populations. Their relatedness has been tested by genetic distances, neighbour-joining dendrograms and correspondence analyses.
The population genetic relationships have been compared with the history of the classical populations living in the area. A revision of the historic postulates would have to be undertaken, particularly in the cases when genetics and history are overtly discordant. HLA genomics shows that: 1) Greeks share an important part of their genetic pool with sub-Saharan Africans (Ethiopians and west Africans) also supported by Chr 7 Markers.
The gene flow from Black Africa to Greece may have occurred in Pharaonic times or when Saharan people emigrated after the present hyperarid conditions were established (5000 years B.C.).
2) Turks (Anatolians) do not significantly differ from other Mediterraneans, indicating that while the Asians Turks carried out an invasion with cultural significance (language), it is not genetically detectable.
3) Kurds and Armenians are genetically very close to Turks and other Middle East populations.
4) There is no HLA genetic trace of the so called Aryan invasion, which has only been defined on doubtful linguistic bases.
5) Iberians, including Basques, are related to north-African Berbers.
6) Present-day Algerian and Moroccan urban and country people show an indistinguishable Berber HLA profile.
Authors:
Arnaiz-Villena A, Gomez-Casado E, Martinez-Laso J.
Department of Immunology and Molecular Biology, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain.
Tissue Antigens. 2002 Aug;60(2):111-21.
PMID: 12392505 [PubMed – indexed for MEDLINE]
Incorrect Jahdey as usual trying to claim the world’s populations as “sub-Saharan black Africans” based on nothing but dribble. No geneticists has ever claimed the ancient residents of the Middle East as “African Diaspora”. That only exists in the minds of Afrocentric.
David aka Mr “Sickle Cell is caused by Malaria virus†whines:
Feb 21, 2008 at 3:41 pm:
….Everybody came out of Africa…â€
# Dave repudiates his claim on April 8th, 2008 at 7:38 pm:
….Jahdey as usual trying to claim the world’s populations as “sub-Saharan black Africans†based on nothing but dribble.
Jahdey Speaks
Pink Davey, you once claimed that everyone come from Africa on Feb 21, 2008 at 3:41 pm. Original Africans will always be a dark brown people due to the glorious hot Sun of Africa which burns pinkeys to death.
I told you that maybe lots of people are Africans in origin but you are one pink ass from the pale cold caves of the Russian Steeps. Have you confirmed your origin yet?
Why have you got pink skin whereas the rest of the world is light brown to dark brown? Even the Inuits who lived longer than your ancestors in the cold regions of the world are brown.
Why are you so pink and angry???
Food for thought!
Jahdey
Jahdey ‘who is clueless on what sickle cell is’ speaks nonsense once again:
What you told me and what are the facts are two different things. Your fallacies can be seen for what they are: pseudo science fiction. A person’s pigmentation does not mean everyone who is ‘dark’ has sub-Saharan African origins. Your knowledge in genetic is laughable. Humans have evolved many times over since their emergence from Africa, so trying to claim populations in the world who you claim are ‘dark’ as ‘original Africans’ is ridiculous on your part. Russian Steeps is not is not only region that people have pink skin, all of Europeans do as do many Eurasians and Orientals have pale skin. I suggest you stop trying to turn people who are not Africans in origin from around the wold into “Africans” just so you can claim a part of their historic identity.
Dave aka “Mr Sickle cell is caused by Malaria virus”
Africa south of the Sahara was only occupied by the so called Bantus (those whom you target your hate) starting from 1000 BC. Prior to that only the San and the Khoi Khoi lived there. The so called Bantus (your so called sub-saharans) acutally derive from the Northern and central saharan regions. The great Bantu migrations which commenced around 1000 BC saw the settling of that area. This again exposes your limited knowledge, your uncouth nastiness and the pathetic situation of your world view. Go read about the great Bantu migrations…search google for that subject and enrich your empty mind with the precious teachings you are getting from Jahdey.
BTW you did not answer my question.
Why have you got pink skin whereas the rest of the world is light brown to dark brown? Even the Inuits who lived longer than your ancestors in the cold regions of the world are brown.
Why are you so pink and angry???
Food for thought!
Jahdey
Jahdey “Mr. delusional when it comes to Sickle cell”
Same reason as to why all Europeans, most Eurasians and Orientals have pink pale skin. In fact pale skin is the common factor in all Europeans from North to South and East to West. But you wouldn’t know that or why, given your naive attempt at trying to turn every civilization into “African” even the ones who aren’t.
I suggest you look at the countries considered part of Sub-Sahara. ;-p
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:SubSaharanAfrica.svg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub-Saharan_Africa#List_of_countries
So now you are trying to turn the Inuits into “Africans”? LOL! The nonsense never stops with you.
How sad it still is, that we continue to be so narrow-minded and misguided. The information we seek is clearly written in history and the sciences. We as a human race have a long way to go when it comes to understanding where we come from, and how we all connect. It is the bigotry that prevents us from realizing that our ethnic beginnings are all tied together. My lineage goes as far back as Roman occupied Greece and Egypt. My ancestors can be traced to a long royal line that merged with African, Portuguese, India and English. Please read your history before spouting meanness. We have enough of that already in the world.
Pseudo science again. Direct ancestor lineage goes back only a few hundred years, not THOUSANDS of years. No genetic scientist can trace family genealogical lineage over two thousands years, but nice try. Next you’ll be telling us you are related to Jesus. LOL! All Europeans(Greeks, English, Italians, French, Germans, etc.) are pale skin ‘whites’, not blacks.