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    1. [R-M222] Genetic Genealogy In The News Today: "Half Of European Men Related To King Tut"
    2. Brian Caulfield
    3. 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

    08/02/2011 10:24:53