PennBoy: But the discussion is about genetics DNA and Poles ancestors, not since when are we formally know as Poles. We could have called ourselves Martians we're talking about blood people who thousands of years ago looked like us.
What do you think about the blue eye genetic mutation.
Where does it put your polish genes when slavs, germanics and celts have blue eyed people, stemming from one ancestor.
They are all close and quite recent family....so what now with the slavic and germanic differences and hostilities? ;)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye_color#Genetics
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In 2008, new research suggested that people with blue eyes have a single common ancestor.
Scientists tracked down a genetic mutation that leads to blue eyes. "Originally, we all had brown eyes," said Hans Eiberg from the Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine at the University of Copenhagen.[37] Eiberg and colleagues showed in a study published in Human Genetics that a mutation in the 86th intron of the HERC2 gene, which is hypothesized to interact with the OCA2 gene promoter, reduced expression of OCA2 with subsequent reduction in melanin production.[38]
The authors concluded that the mutation may have arisen in a single individual probably living in the northwestern part of the Black Sea region (around modern Romania) 6,000–10,000 years ago during the Neolithic revolution.[37][38][39]
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