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Diabetes risk gene 'from Neanderthal'
Moire ridiculous science "so-called":
Basically, the report says that if you are a "Son of Ham", a beaner, or your ancestors "went in unto" a monkey, you're diabetic.
I'm not diabetic. I stopped wearing jeans when I was 50. Jesus takes care of me.
A gene variant that seems to increase the risk of diabetes in Latin Americans appears to have been inherited from Neanderthals, a study suggests.
We now know that modern humans interbred with a population of Neanderthals shortly after leaving Africa 6,000 years ago.
This means that Neanderthal genes are now scattered across the genomes of all non-Africans living today.
Details of the study appear in the journal Nature.
The gene variant was detected in a large genome-wide association study (GWAS) of more than 8,000 Mexicans and other Latin Americans. The GWAS approach looks at many genes in different individuals, to see whether they are linked with a particular trait.
People who carry the higher risk version of the gene are 25% more likely to have diabetes than those who do not, and people who inherited copies from both parents are 50% more likely to have diabetes.
The higher risk form of the gene - named SLC16A11 - has been found in up to half of people with recent Native American ancestry, including Latin Americans.
We now know that modern humans interbred with a population of Neanderthals shortly after leaving Africa 6,000 years ago.
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This means that Neanderthal genes are now scattered across the genomes of all non-Africans living today.
Details of the study appear in the journal Nature.
The gene variant was detected in a large genome-wide association study (GWAS) of more than 8,000 Mexicans and other Latin Americans. The GWAS approach looks at many genes in different individuals, to see whether they are linked with a particular trait.
People who carry the higher risk version of the gene are 25% more likely to have diabetes than those who do not, and people who inherited copies from both parents are 50% more likely to have diabetes.
The higher risk form of the gene - named SLC16A11 - has been found in up to half of people with recent Native American ancestry, including Latin Americans.
Basically, the report says that if you are a "Son of Ham", a beaner, or your ancestors "went in unto" a monkey, you're diabetic.
I'm not diabetic. I stopped wearing jeans when I was 50. Jesus takes care of me.
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