The physical phenotype of ancient Iranic (Aryan) tribes

[Krystian Kowalczyk]

According to Keyser et al 2009, ancient Iranic peoples found in burials in central Asia have been found to have a white physical phenotype:

Surprisingly, the typing of a SNP associated to eye color
(rs12913832) shows that at least 60% (15/25) of the Siberian specimens had blue (or green) eyes

Most of the specimens seem to have been light-skinned people with
blond or light brown hair

Note that this is based on analysis of the genes responsible for pigmentation, as the original evidence had obviously decayed.

Moreover, the pigmentation SNP analysis showed that all except three specimens exhibited a European ancestry, even when they bore an Asian mtDNA haplotype as is the case for samples S25, S26, S28, S33 and S36, demonstrating the importance of studying both maternal and paternal
lineages

There were probably peoples of both European and North Asian groups roaming the steppes in those days; however, note that European ancestry is prominent in this central Asian group.

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The claim that the original Indo-Aryans were physically similar to modern Europeans is often laughed off as being politically motivated propaganda (presumably racist/fascist in origin) by egalitarians in academia. But when the evidence is actually studied, it seems to confirm the claim.

The whole paper, which is very interesting, is found here:
http://www.hamagmongol.narod.ru/libr...ser_2009_e.pdf

[Zed]

Great find, KK. Makes perfect sense that the people from the Ukrainian Ice Age refuge who are associated with the Germanic tribes would also spread east from there.

Hey KK, is there any way you could cut and paste the whole article or most of it with a link? I cannot seem to find it. From the little you pasted, it seems to support Arthur Koestler's book. Thanks.

[Krystian Kowalczyk]

Originally Posted by JA Whiteman

Hey KK, is there any way you could cut and paste the whole article or most of it with a link? I cannot seem to find it. From the little you pasted, it seems to support Arthur Koestler's book. Thanks.

It's weird that you can't access it, but it's on a Russian domain, so some ISPs may not be able to show it.

The whole article is 15 pages, so vBulletin character limits would not allow that and make it very cumbersome to post the whole thing (plus there are graphics you'd miss). I'll try to set up an attachment or something in a bit.

[FIPS]

Originally Posted by Krystian Kowalczyk

According to Keyser et al 2009, ancient Iranic peoples found in burials in central Asia have been found to have a white physical phenotype:

Surprisingly, the typing of a SNP associated to eye color (rs12913832) shows that at least 60% (15/25) of the Siberian specimens had blue (or green) eyes.

Note that this is based on analysis of the genes responsible for pigmentation, as the original evidence had obviously decayed.

There were probably peoples of both European and North Asian groups roaming the steppes in those days; however, note that European ancestry is prominent in this central Asian group.

The claim that the original Indo-Aryans were physically similar to modern Europeans is often laughed off as being politically motivated propaganda (presumably racist/fascist in origin) by egalitarians in academia. But when the evidence is actually studied, it seems to confirm the claim.

The whole paper, which is very interesting, is found here:
http://www.hamagmongol.narod.ru/libr...ser_2009_e.pdf

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It's stunning how white the white world used to be. Geneticists have concluded that OVER 50% of America was blue-eyed in the year 1900.

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[Krystian Kowalczyk]

Originally Posted by FIPS

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It's stunning how white the white world used to be. Geneticists have concluded that OVER 50% of America was blue-eyed in the year 1900.

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Mostly white areas today should have roughly the same distribution (esp because most of Anglo-America's white populace is of North Euro ancestry). A randomly mixing population technically shouldn't see any great deviations in physical phenotype unless altered by admixture from some other group.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardy%E...berg_principle