[CholeraJoe]

The western coasts have levels of DYS390-24 as high as 90%.

I rest my case. I have no known 1st or 2nd degree relatives with anything other than O positive blood type. My Y DNA clan matched very high with the Basques and Iberians.

[blam]

In his book (see post #8), Professor Oppenheimer shows how at least 12 different waves (each with its identifying marker) of R1b's left the Iberian refuge and spread over Europe.

"And what of the Celts we know – the Irish, Scots and Welsh? Scholars have traditionally placed their origins in Iron Age Central Europe, but Oppenheimer’s new data clearly show that the Welsh, Irish and other Atlantic fringe peoples derive from Ice Age refuges in the Basque country and Spain. They came by an Atlantic coastal route many thousands of years ago, though the Celtic languages we know of today were brought in by later migrations, following the same route, during Neolithic times."