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Thanks Palter.30% of men carry an unusual type of Y chromosome... Common in Mediterranean menJoooooos! |
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Posted on 07/23/2011 7:26:30 PM PDT by Palter
Experts are asking people from north-east Wales to provide a DNA sample to discover why those from the area carry rare genetic make-up.
So far, 500 people have taken part in the study which shows 30% of men carry an unusual type of Y chromosome, compared to 1% of men elsewhere the UK.
Common in Mediterranean men, it was initially thought to suggest Bronze Age migrants 4,000 years ago.
Sheffield University scientists explain the study at Wrexham Science Festival. 'Quite extraordinary'
A team of scientists, led by Dr Andy Grierson and Dr Robert Johnston, from the University of Sheffield is trying to find out how and why this has come about.
Dr Grierson is leading the talk at Glyndŵr University on Tuesday and wants to speak to people with ancestry in the region to discover what is known about their family history - and to provide them with an opportunity to contribute a DNA sample to the project.
"The number of people in north-east Wales with this genetic make-up is quite extraordinary," he said.
"This type of genetic make-up is usually found in the eastern Mediterranean which made us think that there might have been strong connections between north-east Wales and this part of Europe somewhere in the past.
"But this appears not to be the case, so we're still looking to find out why it's happened and what it reveals about the history of the region."
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
No problem!
There are better charts online, and on some of the old FR threads, though.
There was a thread here a couple of months ago, regarding horse burials in Eastern Europe, which followed old Vedic burial instructions to the T, according to it.
Sounds like they might want to rethink that.
Just damn!
Thanks for the haplogroup. I wondered.
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Where does the Austrian language fit on that tree?
German is what is spoken in Austria.
You can tell a fellow genealogist a mile away. :)
Catfish 1957(r1b1a2)
He was joking at Obama’s expense, since our idiot president spoke of the “Austrian language” a few years ago.
Lost tribe?
yDNA = R1b1b2
mtDNA ="V"
My grandmother (Smith) is related to Cheddar Man.
I've worked with a lot of Indians over the years. It's not just a language thing. We do think in the same patterns. The engineering solutions to problems are indistinguishable. Solutions that Chinese, Vietnamese, Philippine or Japanese engineers come up with, although perfectly valid, just 'feel' different. Don't know why.
What I find even more interesting is how close the senses of humor are in both cultures.
"It was interesting to see that political interaction in Europe is not that different from the United States Senate. There's a lot of I don't know what the term is in Austrian, wheeling and dealing."
One of the more striking and convincing evidences of the affinity of Indo-european languages that I've ever seen is the paradigms for the personal pronoun in Anglo-Saxon and Sanskrit.
That not withstanding, educated Indians learn English from an early age and English has been the linga franca of the subcontinent for the last two centuries.
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