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From: RT Patterson <>
Subject: Irish-type [DNA] R1b Nomenclature
Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 07:38:26 -0400
In-Reply-To: <000f01c5af1c$be42ef90$71509045@Ken1>


In a recent post the word 'Dalriadian' was mentioned as a possible candidate
to describe the "Irish-type" marker set. Since this name applies to ancient
kingdoms in both Ireland and western Scotland where the marker set is most
prevalent this might be a more appropriate term to use. It would at least
stop people from immediately jumping to the wrong conclusions as to their
origin as they would have to take time to go the encyclopedia to figure out
what the heck Dalriada was.

Tim Patterson


On 9/1/05 1:44 PM, "Ken Nordtvedt" <> wrote:

> The 11,13 signature at DYS385 is part of the "Irish" variety motif; perhaps
> not as important as the 14 at DYS392, but not far behind and about as
> important as the 25 at DYS390. The "Irish" variety is not "my" variety; it
> was discovered by David Wilson, and I only study it because it is real and
> indicative of a prolific founder in the Northern British Isles a few
> thousand years ago and conveys locational information of a probabilistic
> nature to those who belong today. The databases of course tell us what the
> distributions of haplotypes are in today's populations; inferring what that
> says about the populations thousands of years ago is another project.
>
> Ken


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