Blue-eyed humans, page 1
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Topic started on 31-1-2008 @ 02:26 AM by Pro-genetic

Blue-eyed humans


www.physorg.com
New research shows that people with blue eyes have a single, common ancestor. A team at the University of Copenhagen have tracked down a genetic mutation which took place 6-10,000 years ago and is the cause of the eye colour of all blue-eyed humans alive on the planet today
(visit the link for the full news article)


reply posted on 31-1-2008 @ 02:37 AM by xmotex
Ruh roh.

I'm a mutant!



reply posted on 31-1-2008 @ 02:53 AM by sir_stinky_pinky
reply to post by Pro-genetic


Where was the point of origin for the mutation? Meaning, from what dominant genome? I would like to research this myself!


reply posted on 31-1-2008 @ 03:12 AM by Pro-genetic
reply to post by sir_stinky_pinky


It's the OCA2 gene or P gene!I cant really go in depth in this one as im only learning about this stuff myself, but its really interesting though!


reply posted on 31-1-2008 @ 03:57 AM by sir_stinky_pinky
I found this: www.thetech.org...

"In terms of eye color, OCA2 comes in two versions—brown (B) and blue (b). The brown version works in the stroma, the blue version does not. Since the blue version doesn’t work there, no melanin builds up. So these folks have blue eyes.

Now OCA2 isn’t just involved in eye color. When it is completely broken, we end up with something called P-gene related oculocutaneous albinism. This is a form of albinism more common in Africans than in Caucasians."



reply posted on 31-1-2008 @ 05:28 AM by khunmoon
reply to post by titorite


I can assure you this is serious research. Actually it was already published 9th of January by the Copenhagen University on their website.

Searching seems to indicate it wasn't published on English websites before yesterday, and the linked article is a very condensed excerpt of the original in Danish. I'm sure there's a link for the full article in English too, if you search it.

Here's the original Danish article in full (google doesn't translate from Danish 'yet').
sund.ku.dk...

Maybe someone knows an auto-trans that handles Danish.



reply posted on 31-1-2008 @ 05:48 AM by khunmoon
reply to post by guyfrom2007


What's strange about that? People of India share the same origine as European people.
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