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From: Doug McDonald <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] J2 HG in Scotland
Date: Mon, 02 Aug 2004 09:19:41 -0500
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ellen Levy wrote:
> Hi List:
>
> I hate to play devil's-advocate here, and hope no one
> will take offense, but how do you know that J2 in this
> case is Sarmatian in origin versus the Neolithic
> farmers (versus the Romans)?

Another point, especially concerning R1a in Scotland,
Norway, and other northern areas:

How do we know that one region with a high R1a content
is the source of similar R1a haplotypes in another
region (of low or moderate R1a content) rather than the
source of both being some intermediate region? The R1a
people in question could have long since left the latter.
We of course know quite well, and this is not my question,
where R1a originally came from, the question is about the
interesting haplotypes that tie some Scots (i.e. me) and Norwegians
to people in the Altai.

The exact same question applies, of course, to the J2.

Doug McDonald

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