Neanderthal ancestry

[USincognito]

Anyone else taken a 23andMe DNA test? I just got my results back and I've got 304 Neanderthal alleles which puts me in the top 15% of those who have been tested so far. The most found has been 387.

My report also includes four specific variants:
- I do not have the one for straight hair which is funny because my hair could not be any straighter.
- I do have the one for less back hair, which is correct. I am not very hairy at all and have zero back hair. Interestingly my dad had a very hairy chest, but no much back very little if any back hair.
- I don't have the variant for height. Before the Ankylosing Spondylitis (for which I do have the HLA-27B allale) I was 6'2" but now I'm am a humpback and measure about 5'10" if I stretch out which makes me look like the anachronistic concept of Neanderthals.
(The second attachment is me and my brother in 1991 when I was an inch taller than he and a month ago where you can see I'm not any more.)
- I lack the one for sneezing after eating dark chocolate, but I don't eat dark chocolate so meh.

 

[Sultan Of Swing]

Anyone else taken a 23andMe DNA test? I just got my results back and I've got 304 Neanderthal alleles which puts me in the top 15% of those who have been tested so far. The most found has been 387.

My report also includes four specific variants:
- I do not have the one for straight hair which is funny because my hair could not be any straighter.
- I do have the one for less back hair, which is correct. I am not very hairy at all and have zero back hair. Interestingly my dad had a very hairy chest, but no much back very little if any back hair.
- I don't have the variant for height. Before the Ankylosing Spondylitis (for which I do have the HLA-27B allale) I was 6'2" but now I'm am a humpback and measure about 5'10" if I stretch out which makes me look like the anachronistic concept of Neanderthals.
(The second attachment is me and my brother in 1991 when I was an inch taller than he and a month ago where you can see I'm not any more.)
- I lack the one for sneezing after eating dark chocolate, but I don't eat dark chocolate so meh.

You're part Neanderthal? That explains a lot.

 

[Steve Petersen]

Saw a story a while ago that the highest concentration of Neanderthal DNA in the Europe today is in like Sardinia or one of those other islands near Italy.

 

[USincognito]

You're part Neanderthal? That explains a lot.

Yes I am... what's your excuse.

 

[Chesterton]

Just to be clear, you understand this does not give you an excuse to meet women by hitting them with a club and dragging them off by the hair? "But it's my heritage" will not work as a legal defense.

 

[Steve Petersen]

Just to be clear, you understand this does not give you an excuse to meet women by hitting them with a club and dragging them off by the hair? "But it's my heritage" will not work as a legal defense.

No, but he certainly might club that plaid shirt at Walmart when he is hunting it.

 

[USincognito]

Just to be clear, you understand this does not give you an excuse to meet women by hitting them with a club and dragging them off by the hair? "But it's my heritage" will not work as a legal defense.

Flowers, candy and witty repartee hasn't been working so well for me and that was my backup plan when I hit 50... now what am I going to do.

 

[USincognito]

@Loudmouth and @sfs have either of you done this?

 

[JackRT]

- I lack the one for sneezing after eating dark chocolate

I could learn to live with that one.

 

[AV1611VET]

The Neanderthals were people who were punished by God with a specific bone-altering "wonderful disease."

Deuteronomy 28:59 Then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.

David probably died of such a disease (see Psalm 38).

If you have Neanderthal DNA, it can probably be traced back to someone who was so judged.

In my opinion.

 

[sfs]

@Loudmouth and @sfs have either of you done this?

Hit women with a club? Not lately. (No, I haven't done the 23 and Me thing. I am curiously incurious about my own genome.)

 

[USincognito]

Hit women with a club? Not lately. (No, I haven't done the 23 and Me thing. I am curiously incurious about my own genome.)

I did it primarily for the genealogy and connecting to distant, heretofore unknown cousins. The Neanderthal results were a nice bonus.

 

[Strathos]

The Neanderthals were people who were punished by God with a specific bone-altering "wonderful disease."

Deuteronomy 28:59 Then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.

David probably died of such a disease (see Psalm 38).

If you have Neanderthal DNA, it can probably be traced back to someone who was so judged.

In my opinion.

I thought you didn't believe in Lamarckism.

 

[AV1611VET]

I thought you didn't believe in Lamarckism.

I don't.

But if David's DNA was altered it could have passed down the pike.

Deuteronomy 28:59 Then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.

 

[Radrook]

I have hair on my legs, buttocks, back, forearms and upper arm triceps area chest and abdomen. Some hair on the upper tip of my nose as well. Didn't think about Neanderthals being involved until I was informed that those are Neanderthal traits.

 

[Aronbengilad]

Well I have a hairy back but not as hairy as my oldest half-brother who almost has fur. However my father and my other 3 full brothers did/do not have back hair and very little chest hair too. As for Neanderthal I believe they are the descendants of Japheth's red haired green eyed bronze-red skinned wife Adan or Adataneses. She seems to have left no direct maternal descendants today.

 

[Radrook]

Well I have a hairy back but not as hairy as my oldest half-brother who almost has fur. However my father and my other 3 full brothers did/do not have back hair and very little chest hair too. As for Neanderthal I believe they are the descendants of Japheth's red haired green eyed bronze-red skinned wife Adan or Adataneses. She seems to have left no direct maternal descendants today.

This chart has her down as Japheth's niece daughter of Shem.
Man - Pedigree Chart

Wait a minute. I just rechecked and found that he took her as his wife!

Where did you find the details of her physical appearance?

 

[FrumiousBandersnatch]

Unless you're from indigenous sub-Saharan African stock, you most probably have Neanderthal DNA. See Why am I Neaderthal?

 

[AV1611VET]

Unless you're from indigenous sub-Saharan African stock, you most probably have Neanderthal DNA. See Why am I Neaderthal?

Just out of curiosity, are you guys bragging or complaining that you're partly sub-human?

 

[Speedwell]

Just out of curiosity, are you guys bragging or complaining that you're partly sub-human?

What makes you think that neanderthals were "sub-human?"