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[Devolution]

A personal genomics company in Switzerland says they've reconstructed a DNA profile of King Tutankhamen by watching the Discovery Channel, claiming the results suggest more than half of Western European men are related to the boy king. But researchers who worked to decode Tut's genome in the first place say the claim is "unscientific."

Swiss genomics company iGENEA has launched a Tutankhamen DNA project based on what they say are genetic markers that appeared on a computer screen during a Discovery Channel special on the famous pharaoh's genetic lineage.

"Maybe they didn't know what they showed, but we got 16 markers from the Y chromosome from these pharaohs," Roman Scholz, the managing director of iGENEA, told LiveScience.

If the claims were true, it would put King Tut in a genetic profile group shared by more than half of Western European men. That would make those men relatives — albeit distant ones — of the pharaoh.

But Carsten Pusch, a geneticist at Germany's University of Tubingen who was part of the team that unraveled Tut's DNA from samples taken from his mummy and mummies of his family members, said that iGENEA's claims are "simply impossible." Pusch and his colleagues published part of their results, though not the Y-chromosome DNA, in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) in 2010. The Y chromosome is the sex chromosome found only in males, and looking at the genes in this chromosome would show Tut's male lineage.

Pusch's team used snippets of Y-chromosome DNA to link Tut to his closest relatives, identifying his mom and dad. But they didn't publish the full genetic data that would allow genomics companies like iGENEA to link modern people to the Tutankhamen lineage. According to Scholz, that crucial data is what appeared on the Discovery Channel.

http://www.livescience.com/15388-discovery-channel-tutankhamen-dna.html

I think i'll trust this one over the other.

 

[Slayven]

That site you linked to also reported this gem:

Obama Death Squads Fan Out Across America As Rebellion Looms

It's better than the Onion.

 

[Gattsu25]

Well this is going well so far ..

¬_¬

 

[Devolution]

Well this is going well so far ..

¬_¬

Dude I thought that was a troll thread =/.

 

[zero_suit]

Well this is going well so far ..

¬_¬

People can be harsh.

 

[ViewtifulJC]

BCT, I took three shits today

am I gonna die

 

[FyreWulff]

BCT, I took three shits today

am I gonna die

did you drown in a tub of Fiber One?

 

[Slayven]

BCT, I took three shits today

am I gonna die

Did you wash your pants?

 

[Uno Venova]

Okay I did not like the world that loli thread opened me up to.

 

[DominoKid]

I didn't know Devo watched soccer and hated the Spanish

holy fuck.

BCT, I took three shits today

am I gonna die

shit happens to the best of us. probably something you ate yesterday.

 

[bobbychalkers]

BCT, I took three shits today

am I gonna die

Yes and it will be very painful.

 

[bishoptl]

Dude I thought that was a troll thread =/.

So did I. Gattsu, nothing personal but your brother's music makes me want to strangle a manatee in the nude.

 

[Devolution]

So did I. Gattsu, nothing personal but your brother's music makes me want to strangle a manatee in the nude.

I should make that carbon monoxide poisoning thread we were talking about.

 

[MorisUkunRasik]

I busted up laughing while editing:

"A movie that is bad, I have to say as well, is The Book of Eli. I'm calling you out Gary Whitta, your movie sucks!"

 

[MorisUkunRasik]

I could use some ideas for intro/outro for our PS4/NextGen podcast. All editing is pretty much done except for that.

 

[Rayven_king]

I could use some ideas for intro/outro for our PS4/NextGen podcast. All editing is pretty much done except for that.

your intro needs to have something to do with rams

 

[soundscream]

I could use some ideas for intro/outro for our PS4/NextGen podcast. All editing is pretty much done except for that.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?nomobile=1&v=fuuncqC1DEs

 

[PartTimeWarrior]

Okay I did not like the world that loli thread opened me up to.

Its more entertaining when some people who are arguing in that thread have no clue what loli is, but I'll leave the.discussion of it in that thread

 

[Slayven]

Its more entertaining when some people who are arguing in that thread have no clue what loli is, but I'll leave the.discussion of it in that thread

Sometimes, you have to say no.



I am proud of everybody. We gone several pages with talking about Chicken. MLK would be proud.

 

[NumberTwo]

I could use some ideas for intro/outro for our PS4/NextGen podcast. All editing is pretty much done except for that.

Is this the next tentative podcast?

 

[Nakazato]

Stopped at popeyes... All i wanna say is kfc is better

 

[ViewtifulJC]

Another lost brotha

 

[zero_suit]

Another lost brotha

??

Stopped at popeyes... All i wanna say is kfc is better

I understand now...

 

[PartTimeWarrior]

I am proud of everybody. We gone several pages with talking about Chicken. MLK would be proud.

Stopped at popeyes... All i wanna say is kfc is better

Nakazato stole Slay's crab claws

 

[Nakazato]

Nakazato stole Slay's crab claws

If it was crab claw slay wouldnt even be alive

Just had a chat with someone most of black gaf and pop gaf may know nice guy...


Will reveal the show im working on Thursday

 

[Slayven]

Stopped at popeyes... All i wanna say is kfc is better

The black community has to stop this.

 

[Nakazato]

The black community has to stop this.

Slay you need to stop thirsting for devo's sweet flower.

 

[Mr.Fresh]

Stopped at popeyes... All i wanna say is kfc is better

Crowns Chicken is better then both.

 

[Nakazato]

Crowns Chicken is better then both.

<---

The exit is that way

Spoiler

 

[Slayven]

Slay you need to stop thirsting for devo's sweet flower.

Better than slobbering the Colonel's browneye.

 

[Future PhaZe]

the conversation has never been about chicken

It's always been about what the best kind of mac and cheese is

embrace the struggle

 

[Alligatorjandro]

blackface thread alert yall

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=516176

 

[DrFunk]

blackface thread alert yall

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=516176

....gonna be one of those days. Black History Month going out with a bang!

 

[Slayven]

Dy's son looks like he will get a record deal. I guess he will show up now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1kzCaWWQEI&list=UUHsri9zR-4DUpMQluCE_ttg&index=2

 

[Slayven]

Jesus christ I almost fucking broke my keyboard over that blackface thread. Goddamn, just goddamn.

 

[Alligatorjandro]

Its not racist enough to be blackface.

 

[spindashing]

Not going to bother posting in that thread but in my opinion it doesn't matter whether it's the webster's dictionary-wikipedia entry definition-urbandictionary definition of blackface or not -- it was still a pretty and extremely douchebag/scum/idiot move by that politician.

 

[BHZ Mayor]

"Racism Denial League" is easily the best thing to come out of that thread.

 

[zero_suit]

"Racism Denial League" is easily the best thing to come out of that thread.

LOL, GAF apparently has a defense force for everything.

 

[Count Dookkake]

Not going to bother posting in that thread but in my opinion it doesn't matter whether it's the webster's dictionary-wikipedia entry definition-urbandictionary definition of blackface or not -- it was still a pretty and extremely douchebag/scum/idiot move by that politician.

I don't think anyone in that thread thinks it was smart move on the guy's part.

 

[spindashing]

I don't think anyone in that thread thinks it was smart move on the guy's part.

Part of why I felt as though I didn't really need to post.

 

[captmcblack]

That color chart is incredible.

 

[DominoKid]

"Racism Denial League" is easily the best thing to come out of that thread.

im always amazed at the lengths some white people will go to justify something racist.

 

[MorisUkunRasik]

Paint face brown, put on an afro and say you're poking fun at 'those black basketball players'.

What more would that man have to do in order to fit into some people's appearantly strict definition of black face?

 

[Alligatorjandro]

Paint face brown, put on an afro and say you're poking fun at 'those black basketball players'.

What more would that man have to do in order to fit into some people's appearantly strict definition of black face?

paint face black,paint lips red.

 

[DrFunk]

paint face black,paint lips red.

then tapdance

 

[ViewtifulJC]

BlackGAF, where are you on the color chart

Sitting comfy at 24, I pass the paper bag test, I can date your daughter

 

[captmcblack]

It's not blackface until chiffarobes are bus'sed.

 

[MorisUkunRasik]

paint face black,paint lips red.

then tapdance

Without jive talking it's just a lazy costume, incomplete blackface..uh..I mean not blackface at all.

 

[spindashing]

BlackGAF, where are you on the color chart

Sitting comfy at 24, I pass the paper bag test, I can date your daughter

27. Ain't too bad. I've seen some 36's real talk, dudes blush purple.