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Eichelhäher's avatar

Nice article. What does "low coverage" mean regarding a DNA sample.

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Sectionalism Archive's avatar

A sample where only a small portion of the total genome is actually read. Basically, low-quality, low-resolution, that sort of thing

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Yamnaya Futurist's avatar

Low-coverage means each locus is only read a small number of times, since PCR produces numerous copies of each section of DNA. Low coverage means that there is less certainty for the letter at a given position. Low resolution means few loci are read, and is different from coverage.

In general, labs only read between 0.5 million to 10 million base pairs of any given genome out of the 3 billion base pairs of the human genome. You can generally make very fine-grained ancestry estimates with only ~1-1.5 million base pairs.

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Eichelhäher's avatar

Gotcha, thanks.

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Singh 47's avatar

So Aryans did TND in Europe & all was well till Hitler let that nigger sprint in Berlin Olympics?

ਅਕਾਲ

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Oranon's avatar

Have you seen new amazon show where the king of england is black, disabled , and gay?

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Sectionalism Archive's avatar

No

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Timeline's avatar

As a certified idiot, I almost certain WHGs were no darker than a slightly darkskinned arab

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I didn't really mind the indian-tier complexion reconstructions of WHGs that used to be all over the place. It looked like something truly unseen today. Like when your white player character in a sports game is set to black skin

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Timeline's avatar

with respect to regional variations I am assuming they were on average brown skinned to tan-white with often blue and sometimes hazel eyes. I feel like they would’ve looked somewhat majestic, like jason momoa

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Sectionalism Archive's avatar

They also had gigachad faces and robust builds but were 5'6 on average (no more megafauna)

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Timeline's avatar

Yea I can definetly picture a shortish jason Mamoa (WHG) Beasting on a Shorter skinnier Timothée Chalamet (EEF) with his Bow & Arrow During the WHG Reconquista Wars of Central Europe

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Singh 47's avatar

Hmm, why was AASI supposed to be tall?

Hakon said Gangetic plain produces betas, but I don't have the archive

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