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From: "Dora Smith" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] France
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 20:07:33 -0500
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According to the article on French regional mtDNA variation, something like
30,000 people migrated from England to Brittany. That was alot of people
in the 5th century. Assuming they settled in villages and other groupings,
there should also have been founder effects.

Brittany contributed a large share of emigrants to New France.

Since the west coast of Europe and the British Isles were pretty
genetically homogenous before back and forth movement across teh English
Channel, I rather doubt how much back migration to Brittany had to do with
modern population genetics or with skin and hair color of people in
Brittany, but that could explain a small amount of DNA appearing to travel
from Britain to France to Quebec.

Yours,
Dora Smith
Austin, TX

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Nordtvedt" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2006 8:34 PM
Subject: Re: [DNA] France


> The French project has 325 haplotypes but some families appear multiple
> times.
>
> I find 10 AngloSAxon like I1a, 8 ubiquitous I1a which come from Germany
> and
> Scandinavia, 5 transitional I1a, 4 Norse I1a, 2 ultraNorse I1a. Total of
> 29, or could be about 10 percent of this sampling of France.
>
> 4 Continental (old) I1c = I1b2a
> 1 Root I1b2a
> 0 Isles I1b2a1
>
> 3 old I1(x) = I1b2*
>
> 2 old I1b-Dinaric = I1b1
> 2 old I1b-Western
> 4 old I1b-Isles
>
> The last is the big surprise. Up until now I had not found old I1b-Isles
> outside of British Isles. This needs closer look.
>
> Ken
>



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