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Subject: [DNA-R1B1C7] R1b1c7 in England
Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2007 09:24:21 +0000
John:
You pointed out that there are many very English surnames in the R1b1c7 data bank. You also said that many (most?) are from the north near the Scottish border. If R1b1c7 originated thousands of years before surnames were adopted among a people that occupied northwest Ireland AND southwest Scotland, it seems logical to me that descendants could have spread south in Britain and later, when surnames came along, adopted those English names.
Could some of the French, German, and other continental R1b1c7s have resulted from genetic drift? There has to be a certain amount of that. However, one of them (Brune - Germany) is so close to my Burns surname that I have to wonder.
Incidentally, I ran Kevin Campbell's 10-marker OGAP8 (Irish) through Ysearch, and 604 perfect matches were returned! I also ran OGAP5 (my Leinster cluster) and OGAP10 (my Northeast cluster) and received 481 and 483 returns. Perhaps 10 markers are too few to properly define subclades
Paul
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