Posted on 12/28/2015 10:03:28 PM PST by SunkenCiv
The team sequenced the genome of an early farmer woman, who lived near Belfast some 5,200 years ago, and those of three men from a later period, around 4,000 years ago in the Bronze Age, after the introduction of metalworking. Their landmark results are published today in international journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA.
Ireland has intriguing genetics. It lies at the edge of many European genetic gradients with world maxima for the variants that code for lactose tolerance, the western European Y chromosome type, and several important genetic diseases including one of excessive iron retention, called haemochromatosis...
These ancient Irish genomes each show unequivocal evidence for massive migration. The early farmer has a majority ancestry originating ultimately in the Middle East, where agriculture was invented. The Bronze Age genomes are different again with about a third of their ancestry coming from ancient sources in the Pontic Steppe.
"There was a great wave of genome change that swept into Europe from above the Black Sea into Bronze Age Europe and we now know it washed all the way to the shores of its most westerly island," said Professor of Population Genetics in Trinity College Dublin, Dan Bradley, who led the study, "and this degree of genetic change invites the possibility of other associated changes, perhaps even the introduction of language ancestral to western Celtic tongues."
...Whereas the early farmer had black hair, brown eyes and more resembled southern Europeans, the genetic variants circulating in the three Bronze Age men from Rathlin Island had the most common Irish Y chromosome type, blue eye alleles and the most important variant for the genetic disease, haemochromatosis.
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Sure, and Seamus himself took a detour there in mid-Asia for a wee drink.
A lot of history to sort out. A lot of invasions, and in the olden days the North Sea was Doggerland.
Ancient Irish: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3377555/posts
The Celts invaded Anatolia — they were known as the Galatians, as in Paul’s Letter to — and I’d take a wild stab at this anomaly by saying, that’s the connection, rather than, Celts colonized Ireland from Turkey.
Fascinating discovery.
And it’s bearing out the Book of Invasions. :’)
King George III suffered from this condition. There was a movie made about it: The Madness of King George, I think was the title. I knew a woman with partial Native American ancestry who was suffering from it. Took her many years and much misdiagnosis from doctors and mental health professionals before she finally found out the cause.
Didn’t know it could be serious, guess I should tell my MD about it. One of my aunts told me it ran in the family in case I needed to know but not why I might need to know. I thought I might throw off a compass or something.
Here is a link describing the condition that my friend finally was diagnosed. It relates to the heme portion of the blood.
http://www.porphyriafoundation.com/about-porphyria/types-of-porphyria/AIP
Perhaps, but I did the genealogy DNA thing through National Geographic and my Irish ancestry traced the Mediterranean from somewhere Lebanon-ish around the sea, around the Iberian peninsula and across to Ireland, taking about 10,000 years. Goes along with the wave of neolithic farmers coming from the Middle East. Brian Sykes early book “The Seven Daughters of Eve” explains it in a more fictional, but still interesting way. The Irish sequence is J, and he refers to the carrier as Jasmine.
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