Ahhh... Thanks for the warning. Unfortunately, I cannot edit the post. I will make a new post with the correct link. In the meantime, here it is:

genomemedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Anyway, I will cut it short. The people of Turkey are suffering under a crushing economic decline, political oppression, censorship, a degrading quality of education and a collapsed electoral system. We are digging under the rubble with the hope of seeing the light.

Resistance against the current regime is nothing new. I began my bachelor's in 2010, and my entire university life was marked by pepper spray, batons, water cannons, and plastic bullets. Yet, at the time, the regime was being praised in Europe for its supposed "democratic" values.

Sadly, all of this was not only supported by the usual suspects of the far-right, but also by liberals, greens, social democrats, etc. Anyone can be accommodated, even praised, as long as they are useful. This has been the case for the regime in Turkey for a long time.

Syria was handed over to an ISIS commander with a million-dollar reward on his head just a few months ago. Taliban leaders are quietly being removed from terrorist lists. The rabid far-right government of Israel gets unconditional support for its massacre of Palestinians.

Authoritarianism is on the rise across the globe, paving the way for extremist governments. In our interconnected world, ignoring the suffering of ordinary people is no longer an option. Unfortunately, the Western world has recently failed many tests in this regard.

Anybody who dares to speak up against the party-state feels "the Iron Heel". Hundreds of citizens -students, journalists, politicians- are under arrest, websites are blocked, TV channels are getting broadcast bans. All to ensure the continuation of a corrupt regime.

This is not an isolated case, of course. If you have been following the news, you are likely aware of the ongoing political crackdown in Turkey. Here is a summary of the situation (from 5 days ago). Since then, the crackdown only escalated.

kulturkampftr.substack.com/p/turkey-res...

Leadership is busy beating their own best & brightest at universities right now. Plus, the stance that Turkey's ruling regime has adopted regarding Palestine is only performative, aimed at consolidating their voter base. They would shout a few words for that lady if they see benefit, nothing more.

I will present some results of this study together with our other projects on ancient #HLA diversity in Europe at the 38th European Immunogenetics & Histocompatibility Conference #EFI2025

#MHC #immunogenomics #ancientDNA

More importantly, we don't know if that haplotype was already common in WHG or not. Having some frequency data would allow us to estimate expected frequencies after the admixture and test whether the observed frequency can be explained solely by admixture or not.

What could be the reason for this excess WHG ancestry across the MHC region? Our pathogen screening did not provide any obvious target. There are some associations between DRB1*08:01-DQB1*04:02 alleles and some pathogens, notably the hepatitis-B virus. But was it enough to drive such a signal?

Combining targeted HLA genotyping with the genomewide data, we found that LF individuals carrying DRB1*08:01-DQB1*04:02 haplotype had an excess of WHG ancestry across the MHC region, suggesting that this haplotype introgressed from the hunter-gatherers.