One Percent Of Britons Have African Genoma

[WotansVolk]

ONE PERCENT OF BRITONS HAVE AFRICAN GENOMA

That typical British gentleman striding confidently along Oxford Street in his pin-striped suit, sporting a bowler hat and holding a well-folded umbrella, may well be a virtual image, having, genetically, more in common with Nelson Mandela and Muammar Khadafi than with Margaret Thatcher or Her Majesty the Queen.

Professor Bryan Sykes, of Oxford University, has produced results from research which prove that one percent of white Britons descend directly from African predecessors. DNA tests on 10,000 people prove that there is a direct link, proving that Britain is, biologically, a multi-racial society.

?This makes any biological basis for racism meaningless¦, said Prof. Sykes, who explains the phenomenon on the large number of African soldiers and slaves brought to Britain by the Romans. Another factor would be the relations between British soldiers and native women during the 150-year span of the British Empire.

If in future an English girl with a white husband unexpectedly gives birth to a black baby, she can blame it on Julius Caesar!


http://english.pravda.ru/main/2001/05/21/5546.html

[Awar]

What a load of bullshit.

[Allenson]

What a load of bullshit.

I couldn't have said it better myself. Pure propaganda.


Thread moved to Genetics and Human Microbiology.

[Scoob]

Pravda tends to sensationalize news, it seems. I suspect that the study found one percent of Britons have an African mtDNA or Y-Chromosomal lineage. In other words, their overall autosomal DNA might still be 1-2% SSA or less.

But individuals do pop up throughout Europe with African mtDNA types at low frequencies, especially Southern Europe.

[Wuotans Krieger]

ONE PERCENT OF BRITONS HAVE AFRICAN GENOMA

That typical British gentleman striding confidently along Oxford Street in his pin-striped suit, sporting a bowler hat and holding a well-folded umbrella, may well be a virtual image, having, genetically, more in common with Nelson Mandela and Muammar Khadafi than with Margaret Thatcher or Her Majesty the Queen.

Professor Bryan Sykes, of Oxford University, has produced results from research which prove that one percent of white Britons descend directly from African predecessors. DNA tests on 10,000 people prove that there is a direct link, proving that Britain is, biologically, a multi-racial society.

?This makes any biological basis for racism meaningless¦, said Prof. Sykes, who explains the phenomenon on the large number of African soldiers and slaves brought to Britain by the Romans. Another factor would be the relations between British soldiers and native women during the 150-year span of the British Empire.

If in future an English girl with a white husband unexpectedly gives birth to a black baby, she can blame it on Julius Caesar!


http://english.pravda.ru/main/2001/05/21/5546.html

Das ist ganz Scheisse!
This proves absolutely nothing. How does one define a "white Briton"?
Sykes is the author of a book entitled "The Seven Daughters of Eve", which is concerned with the identification of seven original female ancestrixes of the Aryan race. The vast majority of Aryans can trace their ancestry using MtDNA back to the Ice Age and even beyond genetically through their mother`s mother`s mother`s mother`s DNA etc[ad infinitum-almost].
Inevitably there will be a small number whose original Urmutter may be of a non-Aryan genetic cluster but that means quite little in the scheme of things as this line of genetic descent is only one of millions that could be used to trace someones descent. 1% in the scheme of things in 2004 is virtually meaningless and does not constitute evidence of a "multi-racial" society in ancient times in Britain.
One should also question the obvious and recent origins of those being tested. If a 3/4 white with a maternal grandmother applies for DNA testing then obviously his MtDNA will be by definition non-Aryan. Therefore I ask the question again,"How does Sykes define a `white Briton`? I suspect that it is not the same definition that we would use.

[Wuotans Krieger]

Pravda tends to sensationalize news, it seems. I suspect that the study found one percent of Britons have an African mtDNA or Y-Chromosomal lineage. In other words, their overall autosomal DNA might still be 1-2% SSA or less.

But individuals do pop up throughout Europe with African mtDNA types at low frequencies, especially Southern Europe.

Historically speaking Southern Europe has a greater legacy of African miscegenation than Northern Europe for obvious reasons so it should come as no surprise that the rate of negro MtDNA in the North is much less than the south and it is certainly more recent-after 1945 I would venture.
The actual negro lineage of those "Britons" who have negro MtDNA would in fact be far less than 1-2% unless they are a biological result of British miscegenation in Africa in Victorian times or since WWII.

[Tore]

I've seen this study before and I'm rather confident that the marker belongs to haplogroup M, which would therefore make it more accurate to state "1% of maternal British lineages are of an East-African or Proto-Asian origin."

Another study (Helgason et al 2001) examined the mtDNA of 429 English and Welsh individuals, and found only .23% of the sequences belonged to Siberian/East Asian haplogroups (A), and .47% belonged to East/Proto-Asian(M) or sub-Saharan African haplogroups (L).

[WestPrussian]

I've seen this study before and I'm rather confident that the marker belongs to haplogroup M, which would therefore make it more accurate to state "1% of maternal British lineages are of an East-African or Proto-Asian origin."

It would be great if you could let us know what study is being referred to! Thanks

[Vitor]

this is pure bullshit!

There are forces trying to build a multiracial world with no pure races..

Well there aren't pure races that is obvious, but there are remarkable differences, destroying those differences (there are a lot of people trying to make that a reality), we could destroy our diversity!

Our differences(as humans), should be nurished, not destroyed!

Fuck globalization!

[Fraxinus Excelsior]

Pravda tends to sensationalize news, it seems.

Wasn't Pravda the official newspaper of the USSR?