Re: [tied] Mesolithic European Genes

From: João Simões Lopes Filho
Message: 4621
Date: 2000-11-11

I agree 100% with this point of view. My Y chromosome is Portuguese; my mytochondrial DNA is German. I have many other ancestors from different places, but this cannot be tracked "genetically".
 
Joao SL
Rio
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From: Piotr Gasiorowski
To: cybalist@egroups.com
Sent: Friday, November 10, 2000 10:32 PM
Subject: Re: [tied] Mesolithic European Genes

Even if we excuse the rough sampling (I happen to know that all the Polish material used in the research came from a single town in SE Poland) and the confidence the authors show in the molecular clock (and which many experts don't share), it's all about the descent of (95%) European Y chromosome lineages, not of the *Europeans* (BTW, it doesn't concern European *women* at all). I'd be reluctant to draw *any* historical conclusions from the study.
 
The identification of the "ten fathers" with actual mass migrations is crazy. Here's an authentic example to illustrate what I mean. My Y chromosome DNA comes from just one of my four great-grandfathers; he came from what is now the Czech Republic. The other three, whose overall contribution to my genetic constitution is three times as great, were Polish; so were all my greatgrandmothers. This means that my Y chromosome tells just a tiny fragment of the entire story of my genome, and not even a particularly important one.
 
Piotr
 
 
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Sent: Saturday, November 11, 2000 12:09 AM
Subject: [tied] Mesolithic European Genes

So what do we make of this article?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1015000/1015670.stm

And how does that counter those odd articles from late last year that
claimed that Ireland carried more Mesolithic genes than other Europeans?

-C. Gwinn