Neanderthals

Wow. According to DNA tests, 3.3% of my DNA comes from Neanderthals. 99% of the population has less Neanderthal DNA than that, so that puts me in the top 1% for Neanderthalness. Don't tell the Occupy people--I don't want them trying to occupy my cave.

Are you making this up?

No. Here's my Neanderthal results at 23andMe.com: link

» Edited on: 2011-12-27 02:04:31 A couple years ago, for National DNA Day, several DNA testing labs had specials. 23andMe.com had their combined medical and ancestral analysis for $99, which I got. The medical analysis gives things like risk factors for various conditions, likely increased or decreased sensitivity to various drugs, and things like that, and also carrier status for a plethora of diseases that have a genetic component. The only really annoying thing in my medical analysis was they have a thing that estimates how much of your weight is due to genetic factors, and how much is due to being a lazy pig that eats way too much. They told me that I'm fat because I'm a lazy pig that eats way to much, and can only blame a measly 2 or 3 pounds of my ample excess on my genes. The ancestor analysis tells interesting things like how people with your maternal and paternal haplogroups were distributed 500 years ago (before intercontinental travel mixed everything up). For example, here's my maternal distribution, and here is my paternal distribution. As new research is published, they occasionally update results, and add new items. Not too long ago, the Neanderthal genome was largely sequenced, and so now can be compared to Homo Sapiens, and scientists determined that we did do some interbreeding with them.

» Edited on: 2011-12-27 02:23:38

This is very interesting......... But more importantly.... >.> <.< *cough... *innocent look..... Where is your cave? *silly grin.....

HEHE! My husband keeps saying he needs a man cave. Interesting that they pinpoint the paternal down to a very little area while the maternal is spread out more in Europe. Without going by genes I know 90% of my ancestors are from the British Isles. The other blip is Netherlands and Cherokee and whatever else may have got in there after coming to America. Think most everyone was in America by the 1830's or a tad after. Can even trace back to an ancestor who made the granddaughter of someone off the Mayflower. Another relative was hung as the Connecticut Spy during the Revolutinary war and you can even read a blurb about him at a rest area on Route 84 in NY just east of the Taconic, Enoch Crosby. So I don't need DNA to tell me my history. What I would like to see DNA prove is why some of us get MS, RA, etc and others don't. Or even a way to slap it out of the body. Same goes for cancers and what not. I've seen people's stemcells used to fix things, including a friend's RA which was only a side benefit to how the stemcells were used to cure her cancer.