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
And so now Blam you can test to see if you are also Pictish and cover yourself with woad.
Oh woad is me!
"...As these folk were part of the ancient Briton's R1b, being themselves an early Celtic people [Proto-Celt] I have them as being R1b.
Given that this includes most of Britain then any one with a British grandmother is of the 'Ancient Briton' line. Pict was the name the Roman's gave them to mean 'Painted' hence the 'blue faces' in 'Brave Heart' the movie. The later 'Celt's' who were from continental Europe had the same origins as the natives of Briton, and so their R1b DNA just blended in. This has been confirmed by testing. What is of great surprise is that according to the BBC study for the Viking's, we just didn't know how Celtic the British were.
Approx. 70% Celtic [ancient Briton] in the Y-line and 95% in the mt-line. Southern English are as Celtic as the Highlands of Scotland and the Irish and Welsh are the same.
I just look for who I know that likes to be naked and painted blue! If I find such a person, there is a high probability he/she is of Pictish descent.
I’ve done this and I am.
Have they found the remains of Bran Mak Morn, as of yet.