In a message dated 5/27/2011 3:32:12 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, dna-r1b1c7-request@rootsweb.com writes: 1. Re: Icelandic M222 (Paul Conroy) 2. Re: Which Way Went R222? (Lawrence Dill) 3. Re: M222 File (Lochlan@aol.com) 4. YSearch (J David Grierson) 5. Re: Icelandic M222 (Sandy Paterson) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Thanks for posting that Interesting story about the Vikings possibly being our ancestors .Does anyone else besides me have a inherited condition called the "Viking disease ? My brother sister myself have what doctors call " _Dupuytren's contracture _ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dupuytren's_contracture) " People of _Scandinavian_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavia) or _Northern European_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Europe) ancestry inherit it . Tradition has it that the disease originated with the Vikings, who spread it throughout ..... _www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1305903/_ (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1305903/) - _Similar_ (http://search.aol.com/aol/search?s_it=similarPages.search&v_t=client_searchbox&o_q=Dupuytre n's contracture viking disease&q=related:www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1305903/+Dupuytren's contracture viking disease) My ring finger hangs up at a 30 degree angle when I extend my fingers . Gene _Dupuytren's contracture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia_ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dupuytren's_contracture)