XPost: soc.culture.irish, soc.culture.british, uk.politics.misc
XPost: soc.genealogy.britain
From: allan@EASYNET.CO.UK
"Energy" wrote in message
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> Diarmid Logan wrote:
> >
> > There are a very high number of Germanic male-line ancestors in
> > England's current population. Genetic research has revealed the
> > country's gene pool contains between 50 and 100% Germanic
> > Y-chromosomes.
>
> Not true, or at least it has a misleading spin. The Weale et al study
> that I believe this figure is coming from only examined a small and
> untypical area of England that was subject to relatively high levels of
> both Anglo Saxon and Danish Viking invasion. The later Goldstein et al
> study, as featured on the BBC television series "Blood of the Vikings",
> had a much larger sample size and examined locations throughout the
> British Isles. By it's results the English are typically about 40%
> Anglo-Saxon / Viking on the male line. Such ancestry on the female line
> is likely to be a good bit smaller. Iceland is about 80% Scandinavian
> on the male line but only 40% Scandinavian on the female line (about
> 60% Scandinavian overall). The English are therefore typically probably
> something like 30% Anglo-Saxon / Viking in genetic origin.
Plus the studies were based on a rather large assumption that the genetic
marker for the Celtic tribes of eastern England etc were the same as the
markers from certain areas in modern day Ireland. Hence if that assumption
is wrong, which they freely admit could well be so, then the studies could
well be a complete waste of time. Of course Logan's been told that umpteen
times in the past but he was always a bit obsessed over the subject.
Allan
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