FAUX Y-DNA:  SOME INFORMATIVE RESEARCH ARTICLES:
     Native Briton, Anglo - Saxon, Jute, Danish Viking, Norse Viking ?


a) "Estimating Scandanavian and Gaelic Ancestry in the Male Settlers of Iceland" by A. Helgason et al. (Am. J. Hum. Genet. 67:697-717, 2000).

This particular article has a number of features which offer hope in identifying the origin of the Faux Y chromosome.  First, there is a chart comparing the haplotypes of Norwegians, Danes, Irish, and Scots.  Examining the haplotype of my father's second cousin with the apparent ancestral haplotype (AH) on the 5 microsatelite DYS markers, he matches 21% of the Norwegian sample and 19% of the Irish sample.  Similar values are found for the other two countries.  In other words there is no lean or skew toward one population group or the other so that the Faux signature could have originated in any of these countries.  Secondly the article provides the specific haplotypes of 181 Icelandic males.  41% were R1b.  The ancestral haplotype is the most commonly occuring haplotypes in this population (althogh there are few markers for any fine resolution).  It is estimated that about 20% of the male settlers of Iceland were from pre Anglo - Saxon Britian, and the vast majority would have had R1b haplotypes.  Therefore, again, this information does not point in one direction or another. 

b)   "Different Genetic Components in the Norwegian Population Revealed by the Analysis of mtDNA and Y Chromsome Polymorphisms" by G. Passarino et al. (Europ. J. Hum. Genet. 10:521-529, 2002).

The authors of this study measured three microsatellites, DYS19 (also known as DYS394), and CAIIa and b.  There were 21 individuals with the R1b haplogroup.  Of these, 10 participants had alleles of 14 on DYS19, and the 23/19 profile on CAIIa/b.  Only 3 individuals had the next most frequent haplotype.  My profile on this marker (my Dad's second cousin's results are not available yet) is the above most frequently occurring Norwegian haplotype.  This might lead one to conclude that this may be a "Norwegian pattern", however the article later reports that the haplotype distribution for R1b is "similar to those observed on analygous Y chromosomes found in Central and Western Europe".

c) "Y Chromosome Evidence for Anglo - Saxon Mass Migration" by M. Weale et al. (Mol. Biol. Evol. 19(7):1008-1021, 2002).

The authors here looked at an east - west  transect of towns from the east coast of England to the west coast of Wales and compared each with samples from Norway, Denmark and Friesland (the latter considered to be one of the source locations for the Anglo - Saxon immigrants to England).  They measured six microsatellites (DYS markers) and the biallelic markers which allow assignment of each individual to a haplogroup such as R1b.  They provide complete data on all participants such that all haplotypes are listed under haplogroup and then the percentage of each in the locations sampled in England and Wales (east to west:  North Walsham and Fakenham in East Anglia; Bourne, Southwell, and Ashbourne in the Midlands; plus Abergele and Llangefni in Wales), as well as Friesland and Norway.  The authors interpret the data as showing evidence of replacement of Native Britons by Invader populations.  This is perhaps true of the Midlands area, but not of the eastern and western areas of Britain as the data in relation to haplogroup R1b illustrates.

It is meaningless to compare direct percentages of my haplotype to the sample in Abergele (for example) without first taking into consideration the percentage of haplogroup R1b in each sample.  Therefore, considering the ancestral haplotype, the percentage findings are as follows: in
Norfolk: North Walsham - 58% of sample R1b of which percentage 41% matches the 6 marker Faux haplotype; Fakenham - 57% R1b, 19% Faux haplotype; Midlands: Bourne - 67% R1b, 0% Faux haplotype; Southwell - 67% R1b, 28% Faux haplotype; Ashbourne - 67% R1b, 65% R1b, 20% Faux haplotype; Wales: Abergele - 56%, 11% Faux haplotype; Llangefni - 89% R1b, 31% Faux haplotype.  As to Friesland - 55% R1b, 24% Faux haplotype; and Norway - 27% R1b, 22% Faux haplotype.

In sum,
the Faux haplotype is found at he highest rate in North Walsham, Norfolk but in Norway, with a very low rate of R1b to begin with, the percentage is about half North Walsham where R1b predominates.  The data point to a more probably origin of the haplotype in the Aboriginal Briton population.

I will continue to scour the literature in order that I might shine some light further on the topic. The articles will be included, as located, not necessarily in chronological order, on Page 2.
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