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From: Shane <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Irish versus Norwegian R1b Signatures
Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 08:15:14 -0600
In-Reply-To: <20031203053743.22599.qmail@web41208.mail.yahoo.com>


On 12/2/03 11:37 PM, "David Faux" <> wrote:
> Now your pattern of results would be seem to be quite instructive, unless you
> input your score on the YCAII marker.

Didn't use it on my experiment. Frankly, I don't even know what YCAII is.





> I was speaking with Dr. James F. Wilson (BBC, "Blood of the Vikings" and many
> related publications) and he indicated that "M269 is the defining marker of
> R1b10, which accounts for >95% of R1b (except perhaps in Iberia)". Many
> changes are afoot that will ultimately affect us R1b types, and in about 2
> years we may be able to more closely pinpoint (or at least rule out) regions
> of origin.


That sounds exciting. Two years seems like a very long time now!


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