BAMAD no.62
Brit-Am
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Anthropology Updates
Updates in DNA studies along with Anthropological Notes of general interest with a particular emphasis on points pertinent to the study of Ancient Israelite Ancestral Connections to Western Peoples as explained in Brit-Am studies.
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BAMAD no. 62
Brit-Am Anthropology and DNA Update
27 October 2009, 9 Cheshvan 5769
Contents:
1. Brit-Am Vindicated:
Cohen Gene Can Appear Independently without Familial Connexion
2. Henry Rhea:
Problems with DNA and Lost Israelite Scenarios
3. Creativity & psychosis: Nuts and Guts go together
1. Brit-Am Vindicated: Cohen Gene Can
Appear Independently without Familial
Connexion
http://exploring-africa.blogspot.
com/2009/03/working-hypothesis-
around-haplogroups.html
Extracts:
It's plausible that clades I (M170, M258, P212, P38, P19, U179) and J (12f2.1,
M304, S35, S34, S6) diverged in the northern areas of the Levant, with clade I
shortly after, spreading westward into western Europe, while clade J largely
remaining largely localized then and expanding in situ. From several works, it
appears that the J2 (M172) clade emerged first, and then later, J1 (M267) [See
Ekins et al., An Updated Worldwide Characterization of the Cohen Modal Haplotype;
and Nebel et al. 2001, The Y Chromosome Pool of Jews as Part of the Genetic
Landscape of the Middle East]; the former likely emerged in the confines of the
more northerly area of the Levant, while the latter, likely in a more
southwardly region of the Levant [see Nebel et al. 2001]. According to Ekins et
al., the bearing of the Cohen Modal Haplotype (CMH) STRs locus in the divergent
clades of J2 and J1 implies that perhaps a derived haplotype cluster fundamental
to CMH emerged some time before the divergence of either J2 and J1 from a shared
ancestral lineage...
##It is possible that the originally
defined CMH
represents a slight permutation of a more general Middle Eastern type that was
established early on in the population prior to the divergence of
haplogroup
J. Under such conditions, parallel convergence in divergent
clades
to the same STR
haplotype
would be possible.## - Ekins
et al.
2. Henry Rhea:
Problems with DNA and Lost Israelite Scenarios
From: hrhea@maxxconnect.net
RE: Brit-Am Now no. 1395
http://www.britam.org/now/1395Now.html#Cam
5. Cam Rea: Agrees with Nathan Pround
Hello Yair. Seeing Cam Rea's note in Brit-Am 1595 with link to Nathan Proud's
letter in Brit-Am 1394, I went back and read that letter. While on the face of
it it may seem logical, when you look at the facts of the genetic drift of other
family groups with relationship to Judah, it just doesn't hold up. Take for
instance the Ishmaelites, who were directly split off from the gene pool of what
became Israel and Judah when Abraham was instructed by God to heed Sarah's
demand and sent his son Ishmael away to become the father of the Arabs of
today. They didn't even have the "worse case" scenario Nathan Proud presents of
100 years with Judah. And yet they are very close genetically to Judah today.
As are Edomites, whose progenitor Esau was split off a generation later.
And Judah and Israel were together far longer than 100 years. They were
together through the captivity in Egypt, through the wilderness of Sinai where
even their place in the encampments with the rest of the tribes with the
standards of each are described in Scripture, and so too right through the time
of the Judges and the first three kings of Israel, Saul, David and Solomon. And
even after until Israel was carried away captive by Assyria there were still
people from each intermingling with the other. Minor splinter groups leaving
prior to this don't figure in to the history of Judah together with Israel at
all. But if genetics tells us anything about relationships, then the
relationships of the descendants of Ishmael and Esau (Edom) to Judah
today give clue that even those splinter groups would show today their
relationship in their dna, were we to know who and where they are.
Henry Rhea
3. Creativity & psychosis: Nuts and Guts
go together
Brit-Am Pre-amble:
The
extract below suggests that creative people may tend to be more psychologically
abnormal than others.
Creativity & psychosis posted by Razib @ 9/28/2009 12:49:00 PM 9/28/2009
12:49:00 PM
http://www.gnxp.com/blog/archives/
2009_09_01_gene-expression_archive.php
Possible confirmation of folk wisdom?
Genes for Psychosis and Creativity: A Promoter Polymorphism of the Neuregulin 1
Gene Is Related to Creativity in People With High Intellectual Achievement:
Why are genetic polymorphisms related to severe mental disorders retained in the
gene pool of a population? A possible answer is that these genetic variations
may have a positive impact on psychological functions. Here, I show that a
biologically relevant polymorphism of the promoter region of the neuregulin 1
gene (SNP8NRG243177/rs6994992) is associated with creativity in people with high
intellectual and academic performance. Intriguingly, the highest creative
achievements and creative-thinking scores were found in people who carried the
T/T genotype, which was previously shown to be related to psychosis risk and
altered prefrontal activation.
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