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Just How Black Are You?
Topic Started: Dec 18 2008, 12:17 PM (93 Views)
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On Average, American Blacks are genetically 80 percent of African ancestry and 20 percent of European ancestry. These findings were part of a recently released study on something known as "gene expression."
The research was headed by Alkes L. Price of the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, Massachusetts.


Gene expression addresses the amount of proteins produced in cells which is a fundamental determinant of various biological outcomes in humans. Gene expression can be influenced by both genetic and environmental factors. Specifically, the Price research team found that gene expression in individual African Americans varied in proportion to the amount of their ancestry which is European.


It is believed that the great bulk of European ancestry among African Americans occurred as a result racial mixing during the approximately 240 years of slavery in America. Slavery began roughly around 1619 and officially ended in 1865.


For additional information about the study, read: Price et al. Effects of cis and trans Genetic Ancestry on Gene Expression in African Americans. PLoS Genetics, 2008; 4 (12): e1000294 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1000294


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