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ScienceNews reports: Britons might not be Anglo-Saxons, a genetic analysis of five ancient skeletons hints. When archaeological digs revealed ancient graves on the grounds of the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Hinxton, England, researchers there took it as a sign that they should analyze...

Haha... You are so right!! Yeah, I can't believe they would contradict their abstract like that. I haven't seen confusion like this since... I don't know when! Can you remember anything like this? Wow...

Charleston Chiang (@cwkchiang) reports from ASHG 2014 the following: Schiffels: Older Iron age samples more like present British samples, while younger AS samples left little imprint on modern GBR. #ASHG14

Now also confirmed as DF21+, Z246+, and DF25+.

The Hinxton 4 - ERS389798 sample has been confirmed as positive for R1b-L21 by Felix Chandrakumar (Felix's Thought Logs.) Other markers as follows: P312+ S424-, L746/S310-, L563-, L679-, Z2961-, Z2534-, S425-, L658-, CTS7030-.

More evidence of Corded Ware bringing population change in Northern Europe over at Anthropologie: http://puvodni.mzm.cz/Anthropologie/article.php?ID=1549 An analysis by David on the topic over at Polishgenes Blog: Corded Ware people: more versatile and healthier than Neolithic farmers...

Right, but it will be interesting nonetheless to see if they are R1a-Z280, R1a -Y2395, R1a-CTS4385, R1a-L664, or some extinct line. Also, it will be quite informative to learn the the percentages of ANE, WHG, and EEF, along with lactose tolerance and pigmentation as you mentioned. I also...

Acta Naturae. 2014 Apr-Jun; 6(2): 31–35. Analysis of the Mitochondrial Genome of a Novosvobodnaya Culture Representative using Next-Generation Sequencing and Its Relation to the Funnel Beaker Culture A. V. Nedoluzhko et al. The Novosvobodnaya culture is known as a Bronze Age...

Hollard et al., Strong genetic admixture in the Altai at the Middle Bronze Age revealed by uniparental and ancestry informative markers, Forensic Science International: Genetics, published online 04 June 2014 The Altai Mountains have been a long term boundary zone between the Eurasian Steppe...

Supplemental Info http://www.nature.com/ejhg/journal/vaop/ncurrent/suppinfo/ejhg201450s1.html?url=/ejhg/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/ejhg201450a.html Figures and Tables http://www.nature.com/ejhg/journal/vaop/ncurrent/fig_tab/ejhg201450ft.html Abstract R1a-M420 is one of the most widely spread...

http://www.nbcnews.com/science/dark-skin-blue-eyes-genes-paint-picture-7-000-year-2D11996418

Absolutely. The whole Eastern half of Europe from present day Ukraine to the Urals probably contained some R1a-M17 groups. If ANE was present in Mesolithic Europe, then R1 probably was as well. R1 however with the exception of perhaps R1a-M417/R1a-CTS4385 did not enter Central and Western...

Definitely all in on I2!! Lol! I2a1b was widespread in Mesolithic Europeans (see the Lazaridis paper.)

Ancient human genomes suggest three ancestral populations for present-day Europeans Iosif Lazaridis et al. Analysis of ancient DNA can reveal historical events that are difficult to discern through study of present-day individuals. To investigate European population history around the time of...

I'm putting my money on R1a1a-M17. They were the blue-eyed, hunter-gatherers of the mammoth steppe, and from Mesolithic Europe to Siberia they roamed. I2, I bet originated in the Middle East/ Eastern Med., and only arrived in Europe during the Neolithic. I1 is probably a Neolithic entrant as...

Z2123 is very widespread from India to the Bashkirs to Germany. If it does prove to be Middle Eastern in origin I imagine it was probably brought into Sardinia during the Roman or Byzantine Empires. Or if Z2123 originated in the steppe, then the Alans are the likely source along with perhaps the...

*Caution* As reported by Beyoku at Forum Biodiversity in a soon to be published report. Old Kingdom (2686-2181 BCE) ySNP, mtDna A-M13, L3f A-M13, L0a1 B-M150, L3d E-M2, L3e5 E-M2, L2a1 E-M123, L5a1 E-M35, R0a E-M41, L2a1 E-M41, L1b1a E-M75, M1 E-M78, L4b J-M267,L3i R-M173, L2 T-M184, L0a...

The Lombards originating in present day Northwestern Germany on the North German Plain as part of the Suebi confederation initially probably only carried just I1 and R1b-U106 with a small percentage of I2 and R1a Z280* (R1a -CTS 1211 and/or CTS3402 are more likely characteristic of the Eastern...

Two teeth coming from fossil human skeletons were examined in the Molecular Technology Institute of Forensic Medicine Department, Wroclaw Medical University. It was stated that both teeth came from two men on the basis of the gene of amelogenin variants study. Determining polymorphisms of SNP...

Haha... sure you're on. I love a long shot. And mostly all C for Mesolithic Europe is certainly a very, very long shot indeed! Drinks are almost certainly on me! It just strikes me that people are so complacent about Haplogroup I originating in Europe, and take it as almost gospel, when there...