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]
Dave
You are not white like a crayon colour. You are pink.
According to Nina Jablonski (your own blood European sister), The evolution of human skin coloration, 2000: The human skin colour ranges from Dark brown skin to tan to light(pink/yellow).
Why is that simple fact so hard for you to admit. Go look at your mirror again before you come back to answer.
Your skin colour is pink or pinkish…true or false?
What is true is that mine and every other European’s(Greeks, English, Italians, French, Germans, etc.) persons out there skin tone is light/pale or ‘pink/yellow’. So whatever your supposed point was supposed to be here is once more moot.
No Dave, the Greeks and the Sicilians are light brown to dark brown in pigmentation.
Most English who trace their lines to either the anglo-saxon conquest or the viking invasions are pink. Germanics are pink also as the nordic French.
Southern French people are brown to dark brown.
You need to go find out from your pink ancestor how come you are so different from every other person on earth. Thatz what I mean.
Where are you from? Why are you the only pink ones? Why are you so pink with rage??
You are as always wrong again Jahdey.
Greeks, French and Italians are light skin people not dark brown like you; they are genetically related to and their phenotypes are that of those found in other Caucasian Europeans. Oh wait I know they only let light skin people into their all MANDATORY militaries, right. Their militaries are made up from their WHOLE general populations & from ALL their regions(north, south, east and west). Even their dark haired individuals have pale skin when not in the sun. I suggest you stop mistaken tans on people as their natural skin color.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhK2wdNb-lI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92aLs8s0cxg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqYcvsU43lY
RACIAL GROUPINGS MATCH GENETIC PROFILES, STANFORD STUDY FINDS – Stanford University Medical Center:
“When the team further analyzed each of the four clusters, they found two distinct sub-groups within the East Asian genetic cluster. These two groups correlated with people who identified themselves as Chinese and Japanese. None of the other genetic groups could be broken down into smaller sub-sections. THIS SUGGESTS THAT THERE ISN’T ENOUGH GENETIC DIFFERENCE TO DISTINGUISH BETWEEN PEOPLE WHO HAVE ANCESTRY FROM NORTHERN EUROPE VERSUS SOUTHERN EUROPE, for example.”
http://med.stanford.edu/news_releases/2005/january/racial-data.htm
I suggest you go find your brown ancestors and stop trying to turn historic ancient European light skin populations into ‘Africans’ when they are not.
Only a blind person would mistake their phenotypes for anything but Caucasian light skin individuals.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkAS1-Z9DoE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8XX0xqohoE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_M5eMeKirjI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WE9mJX4Wxrg
Dave
I repeat my query:
Are you pink or white? Look in the mirror before you answer!!!
Jahdey
I’m the same color as all Europeans(Greeks, English, Italians, French, Germans, etc.) are. ;p