The British Crown will no longer be entirely white (world, bomb, news)

[Mathguy]

*shrug* nothing shocking.

Given the mongol push wayyyyyyy into Europe under Ghengis Khan, there is all kinds of dna in ye ole euro-gene pool.

I read something like 8-10% of eastern euros have him as an ancestor given him and his sons many um....exploits.

[Chimuelojones]

Originally Posted by TriMT7

Do you have stats on what the paternal and maternal haplogroups were/are prior?

How would hoplotypes prove or disprove inbreeding?

[MetalLord]

Originally Posted by The Dark Enlightenment

I see no evidence that anyone thinks it improper or frustrating. The joke is entirely in your own mind.

It'll probably get the Daily Mailers in a tizzy, though.

[knowledgeiskey]

My mistake. His mtDNA is R, not M.

In human mitochondrial genetics, haplogroup R is a very extended mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroup and is the most common macro-haplogroup in West Eurasia.
Haplogroup R is a descendant of macro-haplogroup N. Among its descendant haplogroups are B, U (and thus K), F, R0 (and thus HV, H, and V), and the ancestral haplogroup of J and T.

[EdwardA]

Originally Posted by knowledgeiskey

Not signinigicant news, but surprising. Prince Williams doesn't have a European mtDNA.






William's Indian ancestry: DNA tests show future monarch has clear genetic line to the country from his mother's side | Mail Online

Wouldn't this support Hitler's Aryan migration theory?

[EdwardA]

Originally Posted by Mathguy

*shrug* nothing shocking.

Given the mongol push wayyyyyyy into Europe under Ghengis Khan, there is all kinds of dna in ye ole euro-gene pool.

I read something like 8-10% of eastern euros have him as an ancestor given him and his sons many um....exploits.

Yeah this isn't a stunning revelation.

[Bulldogdad]

Hey another reason for him to take his clothes off and PARTY like an Indian Rock Star.

[HistorianDude]

Not that it matters, but...

Mitochondrial DNA is exclusively and uniformly inherited from the mother. It is therefore not possible that "Only people from the Indian subcontinent have been found to carry the particular strand of DNA."

It must also have been shared by his brother (2), his mother (3), all her siblings (7), all his first cousins via his Spencer aunts (13) their mother (14), all her siblings (16) ... I could go on but you get the point. Going back no more than three generations in the UK identifies more people with this particular strand of mtDNA than have apparently been found in all of the Indian subcontinent.

In other words, at this point, the evidence would actually suggest that they've discovered 14 Indians with European DNA, not one English royal with Indian DNA.

Now... I'm not saying that's how the conclusion will eventually pan out, just that the evidence to support this apparently offensive to some people conclusion is rather thin.

Oh.... and PS: Indians are white.

[Oldhag1]

And this matters because........?

[UrbanCrossroads]

This is pretty much old news. It's been known for many years that Princess Diana's mother had an "Armenian" ancestor on her maternal ancestral line.