barbarian_warlord
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I have encountered evidence of an elevated concentration of the haplogroup R-L21 in the Alsace/Rhineland regions of France and Germany which I assume would form a distinct cluster crossing the borders of both countries.
(search "The phylogenealogy of R-L21: four and a half millennia of expansion and redistribution")
This paper claims that it is close to 40% in the Alsace region and 35% in the Rhineland.
So if these figures are accurate then why would there be such a significant dominance of what is traditionally an Insular Celtic haplogroup on an area of Continental Europe?
(search "The phylogenealogy of R-L21: four and a half millennia of expansion and redistribution")
This paper claims that it is close to 40% in the Alsace region and 35% in the Rhineland.
So if these figures are accurate then why would there be such a significant dominance of what is traditionally an Insular Celtic haplogroup on an area of Continental Europe?