tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post5062276121146242407..comments2024-03-27T03:19:11.216-04:00Comments on Assistant Village Idiot: DNA NumbersAssistant Village Idiothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-75106113135461486762022-05-26T19:43:56.469-04:002022-05-26T19:43:56.469-04:00As for the DNA, we inherit from both equally, but ...As for the DNA, we inherit from both equally, but what is expressed can turn crazy on us. Because SNPs show up in chains rather than 50-50 at every point, and those chains are often working as a unit, we get concentrations. I recommend Razib Khan on the topic, who is way smarter and more informed than I. Plus he has great guests.Assistant Village Idiothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-86362923214279103602022-05-26T19:40:27.820-04:002022-05-26T19:40:27.820-04:00Yes, that is what I name Lake North Sea with a chu...Yes, that is what I name Lake North Sea with a chuckle. I have wondered whbether teaching European (and other) history by focusing on the interactions between cities, regions, and tribes in an area around such bodies of water - land transportation was very difficult in most places - intentionally disregarding what we now call the countries the supposedly belong to, would be a better way to understand human history. If JMSmith is still reading, perhaps he will weigh in. It's his field.Assistant Village Idiothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-85298509079364101552022-05-26T14:28:45.170-04:002022-05-26T14:28:45.170-04:00I should have clarified that I didn't believe ...I should have clarified that I didn't believe those approximate data to be precise or even close to it. For one thing, I have only one Scandinavian (Norwegian) great-grandparent, so I should be ~12.5% Scandinavian 'by blood', which leaves an extra 25% unaccounted for between Norway and SweDenmark. Then again, I'm largely Irish, and Vikings spread their genes in that area...<br /><br />What do you mean by Lake North Sea? This? : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Sea<br /><br />Also, re: your observation that 50% inheritance from each parent is only the average. I thought the way it worked is that you get one chromosome from each parent in each pair, but each of those chromosomes is mixed from the donating parent's chromosomes. In that case, you would necessarily get half your genome from one and half from the other, but you could have not precisely a quarter from any given grandparent, not precisely an eighth from any given great-grandparent, etc. This does not account for chromosomal disorders or overlap (and don't all or almost all humans share most of their DNA anyway)?Ganzirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08846299071370650169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-21898386906686420432022-05-26T13:02:21.020-04:002022-05-26T13:02:21.020-04:00I think you are interpreting off approximate data ...I think you are interpreting off approximate data pretty exactly. A lot of Welshmen moved to Scotland in the First Millennia, apparently. The name "Wallace" means Welsh man, and they seemed to have been accepted quite readily. It's the Other Celtic Group, and the deep mix is hard to suss out. Though there are Other Other Celtic groups of Manx and Bretons, just for openers.<br /><br />For the rest, there's a fair bit of Lake North Sea there. Even Norway, which might theoretically extend up as far as the Lofoten Islands (fish trading for centuries), is going to be mostly Stavnger, Bergen, Oslo, Gothenberg. You could call some of the Scandinavian bits Baltic Sea if you preferred, but there was just coastal movement and raiding for centuries there.Assistant Village Idiothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-52419131334053417172022-05-26T11:14:27.188-04:002022-05-26T11:14:27.188-04:00My AncestryDNA origins breakdown:
Norway 30%
Engl...My AncestryDNA origins breakdown:<br /><br />Norway 30%<br />England & Northwestern Europe 28%<br />Scotland 15%<br />Sweden & Denmark 9%<br />Ireland 8%<br />Wales 8%<br />European Jewish 1%<br />Indigenous Americas-North 1%<br /><br />I question how reliably the countries of the British Isles can be differentiated, especially considering that I have plenty of Irish ancestors and no known Welsh ones, but there you go. Also, one of my sixth-great-grandmothers was the daughter of a Creek tribal chief (Efau Haujo), making me 1/256 Native American Indian 'by blood', so the 1% is an overestimate, presumably because Ancestry doesn't report with greater than percent precision.Ganzirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08846299071370650169noreply@blogger.com