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Sunday, December 25, 2005

Merry Christmas, one and all!

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Wednesday, December 07, 2005

Got my results back from the Genographic Project yesterday! Turns out I'm a member of Haplogroup I (M170) (subclade I1c). The founder of this haplogroup lived in the Middle East, and his descendants migrated to the Balkans. The picture gets a bit more confused between that point and the present day, but basically the subclade I1c is commonest in NW Europe (though it's not particularly common).

So, my forefathers weren't Neanderthals, nor bog-standard Western Europeans, nor am I a descendant of Genghis Khan (in the male line, at least—remember that this test says nothing about the majority of my ancestry, just the paternal line).

The Genographic Project analysis ends with the rather tantalising comment: ‘The later spread of this lineage could be also tied to the mid-first millennium B.C. Celtic culture.’.

Tuesday, December 06, 2005