Learning_Genetics
01-09-2018, 06:27 PM
I was reading an article on the Dienekes Anthropology Blog which was discussing the presence of mtDNA haplotype C1 in Icelandic people. The finding was not surprising to me at all. As we know, there is already some admixture detected in some European populations, but nothing major.
What was surprising to me was something I saw in the comments.
One user wrote: "There is also indication in the literature that some Y-DNA R1 types are actually Q but not detected since the test wasn't capable of resolving the two different Y-DNA types."
The link to the article and comments can be found here: http://dienekes.blogspot.co.uk/2010/11/mtdna-haplogroup-c1-in-icelanders.html
What are these R1 types that might be Q? And how much of a proportion of Scandinavians and Icelanders do they represent?
How is it possible for the geneticists to be uncertain about this and yet publish information as R1, when it could in fact be Q?
What was surprising to me was something I saw in the comments.
One user wrote: "There is also indication in the literature that some Y-DNA R1 types are actually Q but not detected since the test wasn't capable of resolving the two different Y-DNA types."
The link to the article and comments can be found here: http://dienekes.blogspot.co.uk/2010/11/mtdna-haplogroup-c1-in-icelanders.html
What are these R1 types that might be Q? And how much of a proportion of Scandinavians and Icelanders do they represent?
How is it possible for the geneticists to be uncertain about this and yet publish information as R1, when it could in fact be Q?