Of Interest to Brits

[YCCHgI]

Anyone interested in Hg I should visit the following site:

http://I-M26.BlogSpot.Com

It has a very interesting theory on the Stonehenge discussion above.

Also, to Valens: Hg I is quite common in Spain, so look no further!

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Stevo,

You make some very good points, and I for once will not claim to have all the answers. I realize scientists have for years speculated on the identities of the prehistoric Euro populations. (And no I do not personally believe I1b2 is linked to Celtic languages, but because language...

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Bulletin: a recent paper focusing primarily on mtDNA utterly supports the hypothesis on the blog that is the subject of this thread.

McEvoy, et.al. : The Longue Duree of Genetic Ancestry: Multiple Genetic Marker Systems and Celtic Origins on the Atlantic Facade of Europe. (2004)...

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Stevo,

Something just dawned on me, with all the back and forth that has been going on here.

You do realize that I1b2 is found in extremely low numbers EVERYWHERE it is found?

Sardinia is the one exception, and the experts cannot agree on whether the numbers...

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A note on statistics

The people making much ado about a 1/168 figure for Sweden must think Gallup calls all Americans when it does a presidential poll.

Look again at the Rootsie paper. While they have larger samples for SOME lands (and by larger, not much), the sample...

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Wefpam,

I'm pretty sure the blog/web site refers only to the M26 marker, which USED to be called I1b2 and if one searches the web and reads all the scholarly articles, that is the term they use, so the term I use.

The new charts, as you indicate, call M26 I1b1.
...

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One More Thought

With all this focus on Sweden, one may think that certain posters have a Viking fetish!

It's come to obscure what I think are pretty amazing things on that site: namely that other regions:

Canary Islands, Baden Baden Germany, Portugal, Certain...

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Hi Mike,

It was not my intent to mislead anyone by leaving out the word extremely. As I wrote, I emphasized certain things and summarized others.

Lest anyone take her quote about "extremely low frequency" to mean anything else than the SECOND clause (or conclusion)...

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Sterlingnote - great post. I've often wondered the same thing. It will be interesting to get the definitive idea of who was ancestral to whom, but I think you are on the right track.

Stevo - The phrasing is on page 7 of Rootsi's paper. It's confusing, because she wrote M26 instead...

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Stevo,

I have to give you a lot of credit for posting those two theories. Bravo!

If I understand you correctly, you believe either:

(1) The theory on I-M26.blogspot.com could apply to the megaliths found in Sardinia, Spain, Portugal, France and England but...

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Three more nits:

the shading explanation on the blog states in cases of overlap of SNP and STR shading, the SNP won out. I have heard of other I1b2s in Sweden, so I am sure there were more than just the study to which Stevo refers!

Secondly, where did you get your data...

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Good input, all.

Stevo - unfortunately, you fell into the common practice of refuting an explanation, yet not offering one of your own.

The most striking feature of the theory on that blog - whether the conclusion is wrong or not - is that scientists MUST come up with an...

[YCCHgI]

here's a intriguing site that develops a theory i have never heard before. of particular interest to those with ancestry in the UK.

I-M26.blogspot.com

[YCCHgI]

here's a intriguing site that develops a theory i have never heard before. of interest to all of us with european origins.

I-M26.blogspot.com

[YCCHgI]

here's a intriguing site that develops a theory i have never heard before. of interest to all of us with european origins.

I-M26.blogspot.com