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Comment author: PhilGoetz 19 September 2009 11:46:47PM *  -2 points [-]

While looking for this info, I came across this tidbit: James Watson, who claimed blacks are intellectually inferior to whites, is 1/6 black. Wonder how he felt on finding that out, especially since he's the guy who said, "I didn't win a Nobel prize. I won the [meaning most important ever] Nobel prize."

I know a woman who I think had negative feelings about blacks, who learned, as an adult, that her father was black. She'd always thought he was Hispanic. She was a little upset by it, but mostly thought it was a funny story to tell people.

One original publication is in the Feb. 8 2008 Nature Genetics. I don't have it. Articles citing it here. None of the titles mention race.

Comment author: Douglas_Knight 20 September 2009 04:11:16AM *  0 points [-]

One original publication is in the Feb. 8 2008 Nature Genetics.

Is this it? many ungated versions.

Comment author: PhilGoetz 03 November 2010 03:27:40AM 0 points [-]

This seems more the opposite. It says,

For example, we observed a missense mutation in the CR1 gene, the derived state of which has a frequency of 85% in Africans, but which is absent elsewhere. As this gene modulates the severity of malarial attacks in Papua New Guineans,our analysis strongly suggests that this particular CR1 mutation has been positively selected for in Africans because it modifies host susceptibility to malaria. Another important selective pressure that has confronted modern humans is adaptation to variable nutritional resources. ... ENPP1 harbors a mutation with a derived state known to protect against obesity and type II diabetes that is present in B90% of non-Africans but virtually absent in Africans.

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