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From: Steve Williamson <>
Subject: RE: [DNA] NYTimes.com Article: Celtic Found to Have Ancient Roots
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 15:29:17 -0700 (PDT)


Mike,
You're both R1a and not R1a?

What is your source for R1a as "Ashkenazic /Levite"?
That is not part of the description from Family Tree.
Ashkenazim are mostly Hg9 (new J2) & Hg21 (new E, E1,
E2, if I'm not mistaken).

http://www.aish.com/societywork/sciencenature/Jewish_Genes.asp
http://www.khazaria.com/genetics/abstracts.html
http://www.racearchives.com/calc/haplo_data.asp?dbname=ychroms

Steve W.

> --- Mike Harper <> wrote:
> > All I can add is that my family supposedly came
> from
> > Scotland to Co.
> > Monaghan, Ireland in the early 1700s (not part of
> > the Plantation), and I
> > and my third cousin are both R1a (i.e. Kurgan
> > /Ashkenazi Levite ancestry
> > from Central Asia) and not R1a, which I expected.
> We
> > also match 23/25
> > alleles which fits with the MRCA information that
> we
> > have. So how does
> > that simplify/complicate the story of the Celts.


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