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    Is central heterochromia (two colours inside the same eye) that rare?

    Heterochromia iridium is a condition in which people have eyes of different colours. For example a blue eye and a brown eye (like Alexander the Great, David Bowie or Kate Bosworth). Or two different shades of blue (like Kiefer Sutherland). It is also known as complete hetereochromia. This is...
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    Copper & Bronze Age Steppe people (PIE) had mixed light and dark pigmentation

    A very interesting new paper by Wilde et al. 2014 tested three genes (HERC2, SLC45A2 and TYR) associated with skin, eye and hair pigmentation in 63 ancient samples from the Pontic-Caspian Steppe (mostly modern Ukraine) dating from the Chalcolithic and Bronze Age. The results are relatively...
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    • ancient dna bronze age copper age genetics indo-europeans pigmentation pontic steppe
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    • Forum: Bronze Age
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    Light skin allele of SLC24A5 gene was spread by the Indo-Europeans (R1a + R1b)

    A new paper published by V. Canfield and his colleagues looked into the allele distribution of the SLC24A5 gene, whose A111T (rs1426654) mutation is linked with light skin pigmentation in European, Middle Eastern and Central/South Asian populations. The paper comes just two months after a...
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    • europeans genetics history indo-europeans light skin pigmentation r1a r1b
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    • Forum: Autosomal Genetics
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    Facial reconstruction of 5,500-year old 'Stonehenge man' may be wrong

    Stonehenge, Europe's most famous Megalithic monument, has been endowed with a brand new visitor centre at the cost of £27 million, due to be inaugurated today. One of the prime attractions is the facial reconstruction of a 5,500-year old 'Stonehenge man' (pictured below). The reconstruction is...
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