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British Isles mapped out by genetic ancestry
- a8da6b0c91d 12y agoThis can probably be combined with data mentioned in Albion's Seed to test some questions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albion%27s_Seed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albion%27s_Seed
- anigbrowl 12y agoWell, part of the British Isles. As usual people in the UK pretend nobody lives in the rest of Ireland, and there's no way that there could be any genetic overlap between the populations after many many centuries of trading, raiding, and invading between the two islands.
- peteretep 12y ago"British Isles" appears to be added by the author of the blog post - the paper doesn't make this mistake; when it talks about the British Isles, it includes Ireland.
- anigbrowl 12y agoI can't help noticing the absence of any genetic data from the Republic in the figure accompanying the article, though. This seems like a wasted opportunity, a foolish limitation when you look at how gene pools seem to correlate so poorly with political borders.
- vacri 12y agoMay as well include Brittany as well, given the well-known connections there.
- peteretep 12y agoI suspect every new country you want to add personal data from has a significant cost barrier in compliance costs.
- anigbrowl 12y agoWell, in the EU, including Britain, it's all subject to the same data protection regime so that's half the battle already. The EU is pretty good at this sort of standardization so the scientists would not in fact have to start from scratch everywhere. Also, the UK and Ireland have a special relationship, cooperation on cross-border scientific stuff is the norm already.
- blowski 12y ago"Gene ancestry and the Irish problem"
- dghf 12y ago> As usual people in the UK pretend nobody lives in the rest of Ireland That's a bit harsh. What are your grounds for saying that?
- bjwbell 12y agoAssociated NYT article http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/19/science/study-reveals-genetic-path-of-modern-britons.html http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/19/science/study-reveals-gene...