Anthropology

[lakeside resort]

This is from a study about the gene that makes many Asians turn red from drinking alcohol.

"The allele is essentially absent in all parts of the world except East Asia. The ALDH2*504Lys allele has its highest frequency in Southeast China, and occurs in most areas of China, Japan, Korea, Mongolia, and Indochina with frequencies gradually declining radially from Southeast China. As the indigenous populations in South China have much lower frequencies than the southern Han migrants from Central China, we conclude that ALDH2*504Lys was carried by Han Chinese as they spread throughout East Asia."

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...tool=pmcentrez


Oh, that means East Asians are descended in a pretty significant proportion from Han Chinese! Don't tell that to the nationalists or racists.

[CaptainPajamaShark]

i'm glad half of my DNA contains the whitey gene. I turn a pinkish hue rather than beet red.

[flake50]

Yes I also very much like to pinkish as compare to the radish/beet red.
Yes in Indonesia and Bangladesh people much like this and in south china have really a bad frequencies.