[blam]

"I like the one that said King Tut was IRISH! There is a great difference between the lame stream media and real scientific data."

I'm R1b as are 68% of all Europeans.(The Irish are even higher)

As I understand it, the scientific group had an agreement with the associated Egyptians not to reveal any DNA results. The data was accidently released when the Discovery Channel realized that they'd inadvertly captured the groups DNA data from a picture of a blackboard.

List of haplogroups of notable people

Tutankhamun

An academic study which included DNA profiling of some of the related male mummies of the 18th Dynasty of Egypt was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 2010. Tutankhamun's Y-DNA haplogroup was not published in the academic paper,[29][30][31] however iGENEA, a Swiss personal genomics claimed to have reconstructed King Tut's Y-DNA profile based on screencaps from a Discovery Channel documentary about the study. iGENEA found that King Tut belonged to Y-DNA haplogroup R1b1a2,[32][33][34] Members of the research team that conducted the academic study published in 2010 stated they had not been consulted by iGENEA before they published the haplogroup information and described iGENEA's claims as "unscientific." [31] After pressure to publish Tutankhamun's full DNA report to confirm his Y-DNA results, the researchers refused to respond."

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks blam.

[mountainlion]

An Ancestry magazine, I forgot the name, half a page or so on the process. They said that half the European males were related to Tut. I am 1L haplo but I am still trying to narrow it down. It is an interesting subject. The Tut discovery raised some questions to the out of Africa theory as they had assumed him to be African.

[Varda]

Interesting link but the Irish claim is slightly off

"King Tut Related to Half of European Men? Maybe Not

But Carsten Pusch, a geneticist at Germany's University of Tubingen who was part of the team that unraveled Tut's DNA from samples taken from his mummy and mummies of his family members, said that iGENEA's claims are "simply impossible."

But that doesn't mean some Europeans aren't related. I think the money quote is here.

"The haplogroup R1b1a2, which iGENEA claims includes King Tut, arose 9,500 years ago in the Black Sea region."

If King Tut is of that haplotype (not established) he may have been related to the Minoans who are also thought to descend from the same Black Sea pliestocene population. This mass migration has been speculated to be the result of a great flood.

As was said in the thread about the Minoans, some Europeans are decended from the same population. When it comes right down to it, none of this is earth shaking but it is interesting.