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So is THIS group more “Neanderthal”:
http://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2015/03/doofus-of-day-827.html
???

Or are they an AA special, like so many of their ilk in West Pondia?

Mercury trine Saturn in the third house.

Badgers is sceptics…

Um, by which I mean… I don’t doubt the numbers, just that I have grave misgivings about our ability to interpret them yet.

Phew.

I’m 48.30442% Piltdown, by volume.

I’m a Cylon :+)

No Vikings? That seems unlikely somehow.

Badger: a code 3 billion bits long, in quadrature? What could possibly go wrong?

I is tres sceptical too.

This is the problem with religion – somebody gets a glimpse of a recognizable great truth, and everyone is amazed at his enlightenment. The problem is that very very few of those who obtain such bits of knowledge have the wisdom and courage to admit that this tiny bit of truth is all they have learned. No, most of them go on to build whole systems around this kernel, and the farther away from the original revealed filament the more likely to be bullshit it becomes. Still, there’s fame and money to be had from the process, so who can blame them? Besides it may be that if we can winnow out those small truths from any given religion and combine them with the small truths that other religions have found they will add up to something great.

Sadly, the religions of our day all call themselves “Science”. These genetic scientists have the ability to recognize and match up bits of code, but they want to believe they are finding acrostics hidden in the strings. Maybe they are finding some. Still, always remember that even Scientists don’t always know what they think they know. For more than 50 years it was settled science that humans have 48 Chromosomes. Then someone finally recounted them and had the courage to point out that there are really only 46. http://www.nature.com/scitable/content/The-chromosome-number-in-humans-a-brief-15575

TL/DR: This is still a new area of science and we should take their predictions with a grain of salt.

Durned wet blankets. I think that’s great, Swease. You’re in the 77th percentile of reported results–not low at all, really.

Couples should do this, if they plan to have children. For some, it would save them a lot of heartbreak.

“I was hoping to be Neanderthal as hell.”

What, so you’d have an excuse? 🙂

I had a 50/50 chance of inheriting a nasty disease from my mom. The test shows that I didn’t. Binary. Yes, no. Marker not there. Weasel not got it. Settled science.

You skeptical doody-heads can smooch posterior.

Spoken like a true Neanderthal!

Well!

(that’s my Jack Benny impersonation, by the way.)

😯

Stoaty—I’m glad to know you dodged a bullet.

I’ve been looking over my shoulder for it for a lot of years. It basically would’ve meant spending my end-of-life years hooked up to dialysis.

Who knew Neanderthals lived so recently? 2.6%?

1 you 100%
2 parents 50%
4 gp 25%
8 ggp 12.5%
16 gggp 6.25%
32 ggggp 3.125%
64 gggggp 1.5625%
128 ggggggp 0.753125%

So 2.6% means one of your great-great-great-grandparents was 75% Neanderthal. On the English side, no doubt.
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I need to do this!

Weas: female-linked recessive, kidneys?

(I had a friend)

Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease. But, dammit, I’ve just realized it was Autosomal Recessive Polycystic Kidney Disease that got ruled out entirely (in the recessive one, you need two copies of the gene). Now, I’m having to manually comb through SNPs to see if there’s evidence of the dominant type.

Boo. Mellow harshed.

Well, I have five good SNPs for PKD and four neutral. I don’t know if that’s a definitive “I don’t have it” — I’ll have to ask around — but it’s a cheery sign.