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What I find interesting here is the view that the Celts are somehow the indigenous peoples of the British Isles, when archaeology clearly shows that they were invaders just like the Vikings and the Anglo's. GB really hasn't had a "native" population since the Bell-Beaker people crossed over from modern France and taught metalworking to the neolithic natives who were barely more advanced than cave men. This merging of the small Bell-Beaker group and the larger native group resulted in the Wessex Culture, which is often described as the only truly British civilization to grace the Isles. The Wessex were sun-worshipping pagans who apparently developed quite an advanced understanding of math, astronomy, and engineering. It was also the Wessex who built Stonehenge and a number of the other complex stone monoliths that dot the English countryside. The Celts didn't cross the channel into the Isles until between 1500B.C. and 1000.B.C. The culture they encountered upon landing was already in decline, so it would appear that they had little trouble taking Britain away from the natives. How peaceful (or violent) this takeover was is lost to modern history.

So you see, if these tested people really have Celtic blood, then they are Germanic or French by ancestry, not British. Given the relatively small population of pre-Celtic Britain, though, it's highly likely that the truly native bloodlines are nearly destroyed.