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From: "MaryJo Neyer" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] DNA Tribes Update
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 15:37:26 -0400
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Rich, are you by any chance a mitochondrial T1? That is found at very high
frequency among Berbers.
Mary Jo

On 10/9/07, <> wrote:
>
>
> I am an R1B1C10
> ?I trace back in East Anglia to the early 1700's.
> My prior DNA Tribes report said that my Native match was Northwest Europe,
> but my closest matches were in an area that would have been Great Zimbabwe,
> or perhaps?Nubia. Perhaps I am an Albino Nubian.
> So, I was interetsed to find that DNA Tribes now has about 300 samples for
> London ( where we lived since 1850) and 800 or so other samples in
> England... might be time for another go, at $25, it is cheap entertainment
> anyway.
>
> ?Now my Native match is Meditteranean, and, by far, my greatest match at
> 1352 points, is a berber Tribesman from Tunisia. My next strongest is
> Morocco.
>
> ?The only answer that I could come up with, in my more than vivid
> imagination, is that an ancestor in the Norse Varangian Guard, fathered half
> the middle east, or perhaps Ibn Fadlan fathered most of Northern
> Europe....perhaps s-28 is really a marker for a tribe of migrating camel
> herders.
> ?Oh well......
> Alah? Akbar
> Rich
>
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