LMNAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Daryle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: File this under
Secret Origins: Uncle Ruckus On 12/10/07 8:36 AM, "Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Dr Watson, my fine African Brother! > > (LMNAO as I stagger away) > > "Tracey de Morsella (formerly Tracey L. Minor)" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:tdlists%40multiculturaladvantage.com> > wrote: -------- Original > Message -------- > Subject: [AFAMHED] DNA pioneer James Watson is blacker than he thought > Date: Sun, 9 Dec 2007 14:12:52 -0500 > From: Ray Winbush > Reply-To: Ray Winbush > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:AFAMHED%40LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU> > > http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article3022190.ece > > From The Sunday Times > December 9, 2007 > > DNA pioneer James Watson is blacker than he thought > > The genome of James Watson > Jonathan Leake, Science Editor > > JAMES WATSON, the DNA pioneer who claimed Africans are less intelligent > than whites, has been found to have 16 times more genes of black origin > than the average white European. > > An analysis of his genome shows that 16% of his genes are likely to have > come from a black ancestor of African descent. By contrast, most people > of European descent would have no more than 1%. > > The study was made possible when he allowed his genome - the map of all > his genes - to be published on the internet in the interests of science. > > ³This level is what you would expect in someone who had a > great-grandparent who was African,² said Kari Stefansson of deCODE > Genetics, whose company carried out the analysis. ³It was very > surprising to get this result for Jim.² > > Watson won the Nobel prize, with Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins, > after working out the structure of DNA in 1953. However, he provoked an > outcry earlier this year when he suggested black people were genetically > less intelligent than whites. > > This weekend his critics savoured the wry twist of fate. Sir John > Sulston, the Nobel laureate who helped lead the consortium that decoded > the human genome, said the discovery was ironic in view of Watson¹s > opinions on race. ³I never did agree with Watson¹s remarks,² he said. > ³We do not understand enough about intelligence to generalise about race.² > > The backlash against Watson forced him to step down as chancellor of > Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, New York state, after 39 years at the > helm. He had said he was ³inherently gloomy about the prospects for > Africa² because ³all our social policies are based on the fact that > their intelligence is the same as ours - whereas all the testing says > not really². > > The analysis by deCODE Genetics, an Icelandic company, also shows a > further 9% of Watson¹s genes are likely to have come from an ancestor of > Asian descent. Watson was not available for comment. > > *James Watson: genetic risk to diseases compared with other people of > European ancestry* > > - Age-related macular degeneration (blindness) - 20% less than average > > - Asthma - 31% less than average > > - Breast cancer - 1.45 times greater than average > > - Coeliac disease - 66% less than average > > - Colon (bowel) cancer - 16% greater than average > > - Glaucoma - 1.42 rimes greater than average > > - Inflammatory bowel disease - 31% less than average > > - Multiple sclerosis - 29% greater than average > > - Heart attack - 33% less than average > > - Obesity - 5% greater than average > > - Prostate cancer - 1.02 times greater than average > > - Psoriasis - 31% less than average > > - Restless leg - 29% less than average > > - Rheumatoid arthritis - 20% greater than average > > - Type 1 diabetes - 65% less than average > > - Type 2 diabetes - 33% greater than average > > Results are calculated by comparing one person's genetic sequence to the > sequences of other participants in studies published in world literature > on genetic risk for disease > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > "There is no reason Good can't triumph over Evil, if only angels will get > organized along the lines of the Mafia." -Kurt Vonnegut, "A Man Without A > Country" > > --------------------------------- > Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage. > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] "There is no reason Good can't triumph over Evil, if only angels will get organized along the lines of the Mafia." -Kurt Vonnegut, "A Man Without A Country" --------------------------------- Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your homepage. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
