At 01:24 AM 8/3/2011, you wrote: This news is welcome if only because it might arouse interest in the subject and lead to a rethink concerning ancestry. The Irish in the Middle Ages (e.g. in the court of Charlemagne) were ascribed Egyptian origin!! Nevertheless we should be careful. The examination of Tut may never have taken place but some other event have been inserted for illustration purposes. See on the net the lengthy correspondence that took place over this matter. We do not know and the Egyptians are not saying. They refuse to allow a re-examination. Yair Davidiy Jerusalem Israel [and according to the wonders of DNA possibly a descendant of Nial.] >Bet you didn't expect your y-chromosome test would help you find your, >um, *mummy >*(sorry, couldn't help that). M-222... and just about everything else is >Western Europe... is a subset of the group referenced below, of course. >Half of European men share King Tut's DNA > >LONDON Aug 1 (Reuters Life!) - Up to 70 percent of British men and half of >all Western European men are related to the Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun, >geneticists in Switzerland said. > >Scientists at Zurich-based DNA genealogy centre, iGENEA, reconstructed the >DNA profile of the boy Pharaoh, who ascended the throne at the age of nine, >his father Akhenaten and grandfather Amenhotep III, based on a film that was >made for the Discovery Channel. > >The results showed that King Tut belonged to a genetic profile group, known >as haplogroup R1b1a2, to which more than 50 percent of all men in Western >Europe belong, indicating that they share a common ancestor. > >Among modern-day Egyptians this haplogroup contingent is below 1 percent, >according to iGENEA. >http://af.reuters.com/article/egyptNews/idAFL3E7J135P20110801 > R1b1c7 Research and Links: > >http://clanmaclochlainn.com/R1b1c7/ >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >DNA-R1B1C7-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without >the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >__________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus >signature database 6345 (20110802) __________ > >The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. > >http://www.eset.com