Case report
Similar distributions of Dupuytren's contracture and Y-Chromosome Haplogroup I among modern Europeans suggest simultaneous spreading of these traits some 40 to 10 Kya
Sven Kurbel
orcid.org/0000-0001-9318-7254
; Osijek Medical Faculty Dept. of Physiology J. Huttlera 4 HR-31000 Osijek Croatia
Zdenko Samaržija
; historian, freelance book writer and consultant, Koška, Croatia
Abstract
A proposition is made that when two independent traits show similar regional patterns of incidence among modern European regions, a plausible expectation is that these two, otherwise unrelated traits, have simultaneously been spread by migration of our ancestors. As a potential example for the proposed concept, distribution of patients with Dupuytren's contracture is here compared with the reported European distribution of Y-Chromosome Haplogroup I, a genetic marker linked to the last glaciation period.
Keywords
Ice Age; trait spreading; early Europeans; Dupuytren's contracture; Y-chromosome Haplogroup I
Hrčak ID:
166670
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Publication date:
18.1.2016.
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