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"Anyone alive 1,000 years ago who left any descendants will be an ancestor of every European,"
"The researchers were surprised to find that even individuals living as far apart as Britain and Turkey shared a chunk of genetic material 20 percent of the time. To explain that degree of genetic commonality, the researchers say those pairs of individuals would have to have a huge number of common genealogical ancestors 1,000 years ago — a number that takes in everyone who was alive in Europe back then."
"Eastern Europeans, in contrast, showed more relatedness than the average, perhaps due to the Slavic expansion into that region more than 1,000 years ago."
Graham Coop, an evolutionary biologist at the University of California at Davis, told NBC News.
Their findings were published on Tuesday in the open-access journal PLOS Biology.
I'm not a geneticist, but this seems dubious.
http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio.1001555
"The researchers were surprised to find that even individuals living as far apart as Britain and Turkey shared a chunk of genetic material 20 percent of the time. To explain that degree of genetic commonality, the researchers say those pairs of individuals would have to have a huge number of common genealogical ancestors 1,000 years ago — a number that takes in everyone who was alive in Europe back then."
"Eastern Europeans, in contrast, showed more relatedness than the average, perhaps due to the Slavic expansion into that region more than 1,000 years ago."
Graham Coop, an evolutionary biologist at the University of California at Davis, told NBC News.
Their findings were published on Tuesday in the open-access journal PLOS Biology.
I'm not a geneticist, but this seems dubious.
http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pbio.1001555