Talk:Lithuanians

message: South Africa has a Jewish population of between 70-120 thousand. Most statistics show that 80% of these are of Lithuanian decent (one famous SA Lithuanian is Joe Slovo), which leads to a number way over 60,000. I was wondering if we could add this information?? Bezuidenhout (talk) 22:48, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: No, because Jews who immigrated from Lithuania are not Lithuanian. We didn't even speak Lithuanian or Belorussian or Russian. We spoke Yiddish.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Capestessa (talk • contribs) 03:27, 2 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  South Africa 

message: Seriously all of these famous people I know a lot about and soem random guy laurynas gucevicius I have never heard of in there?... but balys sruoga or something in there not someone no one knows aboout.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.173.37.60 (talk) 18:02, 28 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  I have never heard of laurynas gucevicius why is he among the famous people? 

message: I found this article through a recent Reddit post claiming that 16% of Lithuanians are resistant against HIV. This is based on the following sentence in the article here:
:The CCR5-D32 allele, which confers resistance to HIV infection, is present in about 16% of the Lithuanian population. Its relatively high frequency may have arisen as a response to epidemics of smallpox or plague in the region.PLoS Biology — The Geographic Spread of the CCR5 Δ32 HIV-Resistance Allele
This sentence is highly misleading at best. Each gene in the human has two alleles. In 16% of Lithuanians one copy of the gene is said CCR5-D32 allele, while the other is not. The wildtype allele of the CCR5 gene still produces the CCR5 co-receptor and therefore those individuals are not immune to HIV. They only have a 35% lower chance of contracting HIV. 
Full resistance against HIV is only achieved if both copies of the CCR5 gene carry the CCR5-D32 allele, which is the case in only about 1% of Europeans.
The sentence in the article is very misleading. The Reddit post shows that it's being understood as 16% of Lithuanians being completely resistant to HIV which is not the case. Who knows, it might even encourage some people to be less careful when having sex because they wrongly believe they are immune against HIV. That's just a speculation of course.
The other issue that I have with that sentence is that it gives the impression that the occurrence of the CCR5-D32 allele in Lithuanians is in any way special. If you read the original PLoS One publication that is given as a ref you will realize that much of Northern Europe / the Baltics share the same high prevalence of this mutation. It is not a special genetic feature of Lithuanians.
For those reasons I suggest to remove the sentence altogether. SPLETTE :] How's my driving? 23:28, 18 November 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I went ahead and removed it. I agree with your points that the statement is somewhat misleading and largely trivial. I furthermore would note that the 16% statistic for Lithuanian population is not in the article as a statement but only as part of an approximate distribution map from which it's difficult to tell even the approximate number for Lithuania (the Lithuanian teritory is in both 16% and 14% zones).No longer a penguin (talk) 16:33, 19 November 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you. If new information comes up about this particular mutation, I think it will be better placed in the CCR5 article with the proper context rather than as a piece of trivial information in other articles. SPLETTE :] How's my driving? 01:59, 20 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Genetics: CCR5-D32 Mutation is misleading 

message: I invite everybody to post their opinions at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Ethnic_groups#The_necessity_of_galleries_of_personalities_in_the_infoboxes Hahun (talk) 15:42, 26 November 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: RfC can be found here Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ethnic groups#Proposal for the deletion of all the galleries of personalities from the articles about ethnic groups. Gerard von Hebel (talk) 02:13, 1 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  The gallery of personalities from the infobox 

message: "Since the Neolithic period the native inhabitants of the Lithuanian territory have not been replaced by any other ethnic group, so there is a high probability that the inhabitants of present-day Lithuania have preserved the genetic composition of their forebears relatively undisturbed by the major demographic movements" based on a 1991 article. But we now know, that 46% of Lithuanian Y-DNA (haplogroup N) is much younger in the Baltic than Neolithic. --YOMAL SIDOROFF-BIARMSKII (talk) 19:22, 4 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  1991 article 

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"A 2004 analysis of mtDNA in a Lithuanian population revealed that Lithuanians are close to both Indo-European and Uralic-speaking populations of Northern Europe. Y-chromosome SNP haplogroup analysis showed Lithuanians to be closest to Balts, Russians, Belarusians and Finnish people. <this source is lost in 2016 surce#[28] | This is added> Autosomal SNP analysis situates Lithuanians most proximal to Latvians, followed by the East Slavs, furthermore, all Slavic peoples and Germans are situated more proximal to Lithuanians than Finns and northern Russians.[32]"
i cant found higlighted thesis in sourced32 text. And there are rather opsite informations. qutes:
1 Latvians and Lithuanians, lie in the vicinity of Finno-Ugric-speaking Estonians according to their Y-chromosome diversity (Fig 2B), whilst in their autosomal variation they are slightly shifted towards the group of East Slavic speakers (Fig 2A). Also, one finds Volga-Finnic Mordvins close to the two Baltic-speaking populations
2 Most West and East Slavs of Central-East Europe form genetically a compact group of populations that, as a general rule, differ from their western (Germanic-speaking) and eastern (Finno-Ugric-speaking) neighbors.
:I propose delete words 'and Geramans' from this chapter as non non sourced inserted in this edit. 99.90.196.227 (talk) 06:35, 26 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: genetic heritage

message: I found information about these people(Jaats),they are from the land where vedas were written, it  suggests Sanskrit was first used there(which is closest language to Lithuanian) these people are also genetically close to eastern Europeans so i thought maybe there must be connection with Lithuanians.
I hope you will consider reviewing it 
Genetics
https://www.jatland.com/home/Lithuania
: Blog entries are not sources and most times they are just some fringe theories. You need academic sources for such claims. The same applies to your message at Talk:Romuva (religion)#Correction. – Sabbatino (talk) 05:29, 11 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  new information 

message: "However, it has only held 1 or 2 seats in the parliament of Lithuania for the past decade.": Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania has held 8 seats in the Seimas since 2012, and held an average of 2.4 seats between 1992 and 2012
https://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_Action_of_Poles_in_Lithuania_%E2%80%93_Christian_Families_Alliance https://www.lrs.lt/sip/portal.show?p_r=35727&p_k=2&p_a=sale_ses_pos&p_kade_id=8&p_ses_id=117([2] click "Seimas Plenary Chamber seating plan").
Additionally, it is currently part of the ruling coalition,
and appears to have been previously.
"Due to the excessive pro-Pole political agenda": "excessive" seems like an inappropriately loaded language, but I'm not an expert on Wikipedia or Lithuania and defer to more experienced editors (I wouldn't have brought it up if not for the other mistakes in this paragraph)
Phizon (talk) 10:55, 6 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ethnic Poles paragraph under "Ethnic composition of Lithuania"