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Is Lazaridis a geneticist?
He is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at David Reich's Genetics Lab at Harvard University.
Is Lazaridis a geneticist?
Lebrok at this point we can only speculate. Greeks score 4% WHG on Laz's test but that actually means they have over 20% aka more than Stuttgart, and also much of their ANE ancestry is from southwest Asian not Indo European admixture. We have autosomal DNA from Swedish(northern) farmers and yes they had more hunter gatherer ancestry than southern ones but much less than modern northwest Europeans and around as much as Basque.
He is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at David Reich's Genetics Lab at Harvard University.
Thanks, I knew, but I asked if he was a geneticist.
According to this, He has a PhD on "Information and Computer Science"
If it's true, He is not geneticist, even if he is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at David Reich's Genetics Lab at Harvard University
http://contactbee.com/en/contact/view/5000459
Education/degrees
University of California, Irvine - Ph.D. , Information and Computer Science
University of California, Irvine - Master of Science (M.S.) , Information and Computer Science
National Technical University of Athens - Diploma in Engineering , Electrical and Computer Engineering
Thanks, I knew, but I asked if he was a geneticist.
According to this, He has a PhD on "Information and Computer Science"
If it's true, He is not geneticist, even if he is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at David Reich's Genetics Lab at Harvard University
http://contactbee.com/en/contact/view/5000459
Education/degrees
University of California, Irvine - Ph.D. , Information and Computer Science
University of California, Irvine - Master of Science (M.S.) , Information and Computer Science
National Technical University of Athens - Diploma in Engineering , Electrical and Computer Engineering
How much do AJs score? I know it's very low but it is above noise level.
As has been posted, the academic results upon which all these analyses are based (Lazaridis et al from the Reich Lab at Harvard), show that AJ's can be fitted with no WHG at all. In other words, they can be seen solely as a combination of EEF and ANE.
The only claim that AJ's have even a very minority slice of WHG comes from a calculator produced by a blogger, and its results are in contradiction to the Lazaridis et al results, have very wide margins of error, and produce some bizarre results for some European groups.
Angela, Stuttgart absorbs WHg ancestry, a sample has to have more than her(probably over 20%) to score any WHG. If AJs have admixed with any Europeans at all they have some WHG ancestry, same goes for other non-European people.
As has been posted, the academic results upon which all these analyses are based (Lazaridis et al from the Reich Lab at Harvard), show that AJ's can be fitted with no WHG at all. In other words, they can be seen solely as a combination of EEF and ANE.
The only claim that AJ's have even a very minority slice of WHG comes from a calculator produced by a blogger, and its results are in contradiction to the Lazaridis et al results, have very wide margins of error, and produce some bizarre results for some European groups.
Angela, Stuttgart absorbs WHg ancestry, a sample has to have more than her(probably over 20%) to score any WHG. If AJs have admixed with any Europeans at all they have some WHG ancestry, same goes for other non-European people.
Angela, Stuttgart absorbs WHg ancestry, a sample has to have more than her(probably over 20%) to score any WHG. If AJs have admixed with any Europeans at all they have some WHG ancestry, same goes for other non-European people.
As I said, as per Lazaridis et al, AJ's can be fitted as a solely EEF /ANE population.
Whatever proportion of ancient WHG is present within EEF (Stuttgart) is not relevant, in my opinion. (and not settled)
From the Lazaridis et al results, the AJ population doesn't have any more WHG than that which is buried in EEF, and than would be expected in a pre-Islamic migrations and pre-African slavery Levantine/East Mediterranean population.
If you choose to find the "calculator" results more accurate than those of the academic paper, that's of course another matter, and your prerogative.
Do you have a link for the study, the link you posted above says nothing of AJs.
From the link which I provided, you can access the 193 page pdf file. This is the direct link.
http://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1312/1312.6639.pdf
If you go to page 40, you'll find Extended Data Table 3, which lists the EEF/WHG/ANE proportions for all of the populations which they tested. The AJ show up as 0 WHG. So do the Maltese and the Sicilians. The Greek Islanders were not tested, and you would have to make inferences, or use the Near East calculator, which seems pretty good.
I would happily reproduce the table here for easier reference, but I can't seem to post tables other than to save them to my computer and then post, and I've reached my maximum for attachments.
Ed. maybe someone who hasn't used up their attachment space can do it.
I'm afraid I don't get your point. The study of population genetics is heavily dependent on such disciplines. It is not only focused on the changes in the cells. Regardless, the paper to which you refer was prepared by the Reich lab at Harvard Medical School under the direction of David Reich, with Lazaridis as the lead author.
The paper also lists as contributing authors a whole host of renowned population geneticists.
Iosif Lazaridis, Nick Patterson, Alissa Mittnik, Gabriel Renaud, Swapan Mallick, Peter H. Sudmant, Joshua G. Schraiber, Sergi Castellano, Karola Kirsanow, Christos Economou, Ruth Bollongino, Qiaomei Fu, Kirsten Bos, Susanne Nordenfelt, Cesare de Filippo, Kay Prüfer, Susanna Sawyer, Cosimo Posth, Wolfgang Haak, Fredrik Hallgren, Elin Fornander, George Ayodo, Hamza A. Babiker, Elena Balanovska, Oleg Balanovsky, Haim Ben-Ami, Judit Bene, Fouad Berrada, Francesca Brisighelli, George B.J. Busby, Francesco Cali, Mikhail Churnosov, David E.C. Cole, Larissa Damba, Dominique Delsate, George van Driem, Stanislav Dryomov, Sardana A. Fedorova, Michael Francken, Irene Gallego Romero, Marina Gubina, Jean-Michel Guinet, Michael Hammer, Brenna Henn, Tor Helvig, Ugur Hodoglugil, Aashish R. Jha, Rick Kittles, Elza Khusnutdinova, Toomas Kivisild, Vaidutis Kučinskas, Rita Khusainova, Alena Kushniarevich, Leila Laredj, Sergey Litvinov, Robert W. Mahley, Béla Melegh, Ene Metspalu, Joanna Mountain, Thomas Nyambo, Ludmila Osipova, Jüri Parik, Fedor Platonov, Olga L. Posukh, Valentino Romano, Igor Rudan, Ruslan Ruizbakiev, Hovhannes Sahakyan, Antonio Salas, Elena B. Starikovskaya, Ayele Tarekegn, Draga Toncheva, Shahlo Turdikulova, Ingrida Uktveryte, Olga Utevska, Mikhail Voevoda, Joachim Wahl, Pierre Zalloua, Levon Yepiskoposyan, Tatijana Zemunik, Alan Cooper, Cristian Capelli, Mark G. Thomas, Sarah A. Tishkoff, Lalji Singh, Kumarasamy Thangaraj, Richard Villems, David Comas, Rem Sukernik, Mait Metspalu, Matthias Meyer, Evan E. Eichler, Joachim Burger, Montgomery Slatkin, Svante Pääbo, Janet Kelso, David Reich, Johannes Krause
doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/001552
MfA's spreadsheet :
Near East 89.622
ANE 10.378
I got 84% Near East and 16% ANE.