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| Evidence of Historical Events Impacting Modern Structure of Lebanese Populations | ||||
| Daniel E. Platt | On: | 9-Apr-2008 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM | ||
| RSM | At: | Watson Research Center (Yorktown), Room 20-001 | ||
| IBM Research | Host: | CBC Gustavo Stolovitzky | ||
Abstract: A subhaplogroup of R1b, which occupies primarily a region in France and must be derived from other European R1b's, appears in only 0.1% of the European population. It appears in no samples obtained in nations surrounding Lebanon, nor in non-Christian Lebanese populations. Yet it appears with a frequency of 2% among Lebanese Christians. How? Or, more specifically, which conditions would be most compatible with this observation? Speaker biography: Dan Platt has been working as a part of the IBM team working with the National Geographic Society's Genographic Project since its kickoff in 12/2004, and has been working with the Computational Biology Center for over 10 years. | ||||