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]
Hehehehe
I am embarrassed for you!
You who would vituperate about the “black” skin of brown-skinned Africans are now tongue tied to physically described your self.
I thought you “was” white. LOL
Go ahead, be bold and tell me your real colour pigmentation.
David…are you a white or a pink man?
Jahdey
The day you embarrass anyone, Jahdey, is the day cows fly over the moon.
Since you can’t comprehend simple answers, again I am the same color and phenotypes as all other Europeans (Greeks, English, Italians, French, Germans, etc.) are pale/light skin tone = ‘white’.
African phenotypes are “dark brown” = ‘black’. ;p
Dave you are pink because there is no colour like “light” so to speak.
Don’t you dare call your arse white again here cause now you have been taught a lesson in skin colour pigmentation.
Northern Europeans are all pinkish in colour. I do not want to dishonour you by suggesting that you are yellow.
So be PROUD of your COLOUR Mister Dave aka “Mr. Sickle Cell is caused by Malaria Parasite”. PINK!
Jahdey is right i am Greek and i wouldnt consider greeks the same as northern europeans. Northern europeans are pinckish.and burn easily . Most of us are tanned olove or loght brownish. Theres are few pale whites although they do exist. But this would be normal.considering greeces position and all differnt types of neighboirs . I personally dont consider us anglo saxon* white*. We werent even considered whites in 1900s in Us and Australia etc… we cant forget that
Jahdey who can’t comprehend the fact that Sickle Cell is not some ‘genetic race’ marker.
I am proud of my “PINK” skin(the politically correct term used by some for obvious reasons) that is found in ALL European people (Greeks, English, Italians, French, Germans, etc.) alike. Europeans have the same phenotypes, such as facial features & light/pale coloring, including SOUTHERN Europeans, not just Northern Europeans, as you so incorrectly claimed. Try to pick out the Greeks from the Americans, Germans, Czech, and Austrians from the clip below if you can…. ;p
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QavZsO7A54k
More “PINK” Greeks who are similar genetically, culturally etc. to all European people, not “brown Africans”. ;p
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhKnnf60kn4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dFLkxFBNZ4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJWnL8Xp1kI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65AiRM2mjVM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDDP5wZ5G-E
For a person to teach something s/he much be knowledgeable in the facts and its been established you are not.
Dave
Where are you writing from? Seriously, tell me the country you are in? I am in North America, are you there too or in Europe?
Jahdey
Currently in the States but I lived half of the year in Europe.
“I lived half of the year in Europe”
Sorry that should read: I LIVE half of the year over in Europe.