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>Race isn't simply about absolute genetic diversity, it's about the frequency with which those alleles are distributed.

But the issue is was that specifically a racial correlation or an ethnic group correlation? The population dynamics governing Black Americans is completely different than the population dynamics governing Black Africans. Just like in another thread I pointed out concerning diabetes rates people are projecting allele prevalence onto race without doing proper comparisons.

What is the prevalence of the MAOA gene in black African populations? We know Black Americans are roughly 400 years removed from Africa and moderately bottlenecked if you take into account parts of their population/genome dying off during slave ship transportation and some of them not surving long enough or having a chance to reproduce during slavery.

Those events could have easily increased the frequency of the MAOA genes since their population wasn't always +40 million. It's beginning phases was several hundred thousand.

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