Re: 'Colonials'
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Posted by Jock on August 31, 2006 at 16:07:40 from 87.105.81.146
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In Reply to: Re: 'Colonials' posted by PeterH on August 31, 2006 at 12:57:48:
But, to be serious, Prue - you may have landed yourself in more complications with your mention of Anglo-Saxon types born in the UK. Who the hell are they? I have no idea whether I fall into that category - I was born in the UK, but my father's family came from Ireland. My mother's family are English, but I haven't a clue what their origins are. This sort of confusion, plus the fairly massive immigration into the UK in recent years, means that a pedigree 'Anglo-Saxon' origin must now be extremely rare. We are all citizens of the World now, and I personally think [note those words, Kathy] that words like 'colonial' and 'Anglo-Saxon' should be binned,
Reminds me about a genetic study I was reading about only the other day.
we examine genetic data for evidence of male immigration at particular times into Central England and North Wales. To do this, we used 12 biallelic polymorphisms and six microsatellite markers to define high-resolution Y chromosome haplotypes in a sample of 313 males from seven towns located along an east-west transect from East Anglia to North Wales. The Central English towns were genetically very similar, whereas the two North Welsh towns differed significantly both from each other and from the Central English towns. When we compared our data with an additional 177 samples collected in Friesland and Norway, we found that the Central English and Frisian samples were statistically indistinguishable. Using novel population genetic models that incorporate both mass migration and continuous gene flow, we conclude that these striking patterns are best explained by a substantial migration of Anglo-Saxon Y chromosomes into Central England (contributing 50%–100% to the gene pool at that time) but not into North Wales.
Hmm. Peter, do you ever feel the slightest bit Welsh? An interest in 2 ft gauge railways, dragons or King Arthur, perhaps?
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