Seems that 50 percent of European men possess the same DNA profile group as King Tut!
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This genetic profile group is also found in 70 percent of Spanish males and 60 percent of French males however, it is only present in less than one percent of men in modern-day Egyptian men.
They think it may have originated 9,500 years ago and spread to Europe in 7000BC.
That's nothing.....there is an area in NW Wales (I think) where a body was found and dated to 9500BCE (7500BC). They found a good deal of usable marrow and stuff in the bones they could get a DNA analysis from, and so they did. They then tested the local school children and their parents in the study, to see if there was any connection. Turns out 90% of the population in the area are direct descendants of this buried person. He's their 385th great grandfather!!!!. How they found out was they found the person's Y chromosomes (it was a male) and they managed to extract enough DNA to map out the gene markers on the Y chromosomes that are specific through generations. They also found the mitochondria as well, so it was a bit of a bonanza and lucky he had tissue that was in good preservation.
But as far as being related to King Tut, that wouldn't surprise me in the least. You wouldn't be directly related to him, as he had no children, but you'd certainly be related more distantly if you both share the R1b Haplogroup. He'd be your cousin, umpteen times removed.
Very interesting Craig.
Genghis Khan dna can be found in 8% of the population in a large region such that it is about 0.5% world wide...
Wonder what my family did way back, who they were etc.
alex
Very interesting Craig.
Genghis Khan dna can be found in 8% of the population in a large region such that it is about 0.5% world wide... Wonder what my family did way back, who they were etc. alex
Genghis Khan (1155-1227)
I'm lucky, I do know
I'll have to check my family tree to see where I fit in as I have Rurikid blood and I know that some of them married into Genghis's family. However, I have plenty of others scattered all over the place
His descendants are most likely cousins.
Last edited by renormalised; 04-08-2011 at 04:39 PM.
Well if one thinks it thru we all came from that first primative cell so we are all related at some point... even to everything that is alive on this planet today...animals and plants as well.
alex
Ancestry can be quite interesting. We had a family rumour that we were descended from Joseph Banks (who had no kids!). Turned out we were descended from a whaling Captain Banks who moved out to Oz in the late 1820s. However, he was descended from Sir Joseph's father's second marriage or something. So the rumour was kinda true in a very indirect way...
