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From: "Ken Nordtvedt" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Haplotype Q and Autosomes
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 16:09:23 -0700
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Why aren't the Q found in Shetlands just Inuit genes brought back from
Greenland by that colony's Viking founders or later folks trading back and
forth with the Greenland settlements? For a few centuries there was much
traffic, and then later somewhat after Columbus European contact with
Greenland and its peoples started up again.

Ken
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Faux" <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, November 11, 2005 3:58 PM
Subject: Re: [DNA] Haplotype Q and Autosomes


> David and Jim:
>
> Native American Y chromosome include Q3 (M3, M19), Q (P36, M242), P
> (M45), and C (RPS4Y).
>
> Using Bortolini et al. (AJHG, 73:524-539, 2003) as an example, a total of
> 347 Amerinds from South America were genotyped as follows:
>
> Q3 = 83%; Q = 9%; P = 4% and C = 0%
>
> Looking at 48 Na Dene of North America, the following figures applied:
>
> Q3 = 6%; Q = 25%; P = 63%; and C = 6%
>
> Depending on location in North and South America Q without the M3
> derivation is actually quite common.
>
> David Faux.
>

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