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DNA Test Can Detect Picts' Descendants

By Auslan Cramb, Scottish Correspondent

(Filed: 14/08/2006)

A geneticist has created a DNA test for "Scottishness" that will tell people whether they are direct descendants of the Picts.

The test, expected to cost about £130, checks a sample of saliva against 27 genetic markers linked to some of the earliest inhabitants of Scotland.

Dr Jim Wilson, of the public health sciences department at Edinburgh University, said: "We started this work a few years ago, looking at the Norse component, and we proved that a large proportion of people on Orkney are descended from Vikings.

"Now the markers have moved on massively and we have discovered that we can trace back the component of the indigenous Picts by looking at the unique grouping of their Y-chromosome. We believe that this would have been found only in Scotland."

Scientists were able to isolate the unique Pictish DNA strands from 1,000-year-old bone fragments found in ancient burial grounds

[squarebarb]

If it is both in Pictish and Latin, then they should be able to translate the Pictish and find out something about the language.

I thought they knew absolutely nothing about Pictish??

Anyway, thanks for posting!

[Southerngl]

I’ve traced my ancestors back to the picts. Ancestry.com has alot of info and the DNA tests are unbelievable.

[MS.BEHAVIN]

Thanks for the great post Blam!
Always enjoy reading your stuff!
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[Sparky1776]

I actually plan to visit St Vigeans as it is where my paternal great - grandmother was from and had planned on checking out the musuem. Too bad it is closed until 2009!

[Dysart]

Of great interest to me. Thanks.

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