Human earwax is proof positive of intelligent design.
First of all, earwax is complicated. Much like a mouse trap. Nothing with so many working parts (i.e., earwax) could possibly have "evolved." Plus, like a mousetrap, earwax is sometimes sticky (though not always).
Nevertheless, scientists and so-called 'genetic researchers'--all clearly Agents of Beelzebub--claim to have uncovered the key gene behind the waxy mystery.
The report in Monday's Nature Genetics journal solves a long-running anthropologist's riddle - why many people in China and Korea, as well as elsewhere in Asia, have dry earwax while the rest of humanity enjoys the sticky variety.
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Geneticists had known the neighborhood of the earwax gene from previous work and decided to pin it down. The earwax riddle surprisingly comes down to a single gene, dubbed ABCC11, reports a Japanese team led by Koh-ichiro Yoshiura of the Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. The gene comes in two types, or alleles, corresponding to wet or dry earwax.
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By examining 126 Japanese volunteers, the team determined that the dry-earwax gene is recessive, meaning both parents must pass a copy to their children for it to work. To chart a global earwax gene map, the team next looked at volunteers from 33 populations worldwide, from Native Americans to Ashkenazi Jews to Polynesian islanders. The dry-earwax allele probably arose "in northeast Asia and thereafter spread throughout the world," the team concludes.
"These results are amazing," says biological anthropologist Mark Shriver of the Pennsylvania State University in University Park by e-mail. Shriver says the Japanese team's success points the way to future finds of disease-related genes specific to certain populations worldwide, as well as glimpses of how evolution changes genes in people over time.
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