Amazing, our Murphy line are all B+ and heavily acidic .. MaryPat ===================== From: [email protected] Date: 2007/01/30 Tue AM 09:40:59 CST To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [IRISH-AMER] DNA & Mediterranean Traits > I guess I'm looking for the Asian in the Irish woodpile. As am I, Phyllis. My mother, grandmother, and I all have B+ blood another trait that shouldn't show up, but rarely, in an Irish line. Melody -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: Phyllis <[email protected]> > I spelled it wrong! It is Alpha Thallasemia Trait ... got my ss's and > ll's reversed on that one!!!!! > > it showed up on some blood tests that were run, looking for something > else. > > What it is, my red blood cells are always smaller than normal, and so > consequently I run slightly anemic. But I am not anemic ... just low on > iron because the cells are smaller than they should be, so each cell > carries less hemoglobin than a larger cell would, therefore less > hemoglobin/iron shows up on the blood tests. > > My system makes more than the normal number of red blood cells, however, > to try to compensate. So I have the smaller cells, more of them, and am > slightly anemic. There are two other tests that are always out of range > on the low end, something like MCV (MVC?) and MCVH (MVCH?) ... not sure > on that. would have to go look it up on the test results and I'm being > lazy right now. :-P > > But see, I am blonde, green eyed ... had the white blonde hair into my > thirties ... born a towhead. dunno where the Mediterranean/Asian > ancestor is. However if the DNA tests results posted here for MtDNA are > correct then that would explain it. > > What I have is not a disease, it's just a blood trait just as sickle > cell is. Although there are three other kinds of Alpha-Thallasemia, in > varying degrees of severity. THe problem would be if my children had > the trait and were to marry someone who is also carrying the trait, and > since it is recessive .. then their children would have all kinds of > problems. > > If you do a google on it you can read about it. But spell it the way I > have it now! hahaha > > What I am wondering about now, is would such a trait as a > Mediterranean/Oriental/Asian trait show up in the Irish, because of the > ancestry from so long ago? I do know that maternal DNA (MtDNA) > changes/mutates only once in about a million or so years, let's say, as > it is passed down the maternal line. So wouldn't it have to be > something I inherited from my maternal line? (That would only be Irish, > French, and a little bit of German from Saxony. On my paternal side it > is Ostfrisian-German (with a little bit of Dutch in there), Swiss, and > English.) > > Or could my father have passed this mediterranean trait to me. I guess > I'm looking for the Asian in the Irish woodpile. > > Phyllis > > > >Dear Phyllis, > > > >If it is not too personal, what exactly is the Alpha Thessalonia Trait. I > >am also very interested in this subject. > > > >Regards, > >Colleen > > > > > ====Irish American Mailing List===== > Add/check your surname to the Irish-American mailing list Surname Registry at: > http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/IrishAmerican/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message ====Irish American Mailing List===== Add/check your surname to the Irish-American mailing list Surname Registry at: http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/IrishAmerican/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message