Maternal & Paternal DNA Origins in Ireland

[Neon Knight]

http://newswatch.nationalgeographic....l-dna-results/

Interesting that the same DNA comes from Iberia and southern Germany:

[Anglojew]

I think the same people inhabited the whole of West Europe during the Neolithic period.

[SobieskisavedEurope]

There is a chance that I1a & R1a haplogroups are actually earlier to the British Islands than R1b is.

R1b haplpgroup is higher in Eastern Ireland where there was more Viking expansion!

[Argang]

http://newswatch.nationalgeographic....l-dna-results/

Interesting that the same DNA comes from Iberia and southern Germany

Different subclades though. Aren't the oldest "Celtic" variants of R1b currently from France?

[Prisoner Of Ice]

I think the same people inhabited the whole of West Europe during the Neolithic period.

[Neon Knight]

Bear in mind that maternal and paternal DNA only give a small part of the picture. We know that the Irish have more overlap with the British than any other populations.

[Cail]

12% paternal vs 7% maternal sounds reasonable for the Viking/Germanic ancestry (obviously more males had migrated then females). Complete lack of hunter-gatherer paternal is unusual - any other possible explanation other than Neolithic Celtic/Proto-Celtic newcomers exterminating all local hunter-gatherer males?

[Argang]

Complete lack of hunter-gatherer paternal is unusual - any other possible explanation other than Neolithic Celtic/Proto-Celtic newcomers exterminating all local hunter-gatherer males?

Since I and C1 are the only paternals so far found in mesolithic European hunter-gatherers, they could very well have some. The NatGeo people probably didn't know it when completing that study, because the studies (including Y-DNA results for Loschbour, Motala and La Braña HG's) were published as recently as December 2013 and January 2014.

[Aldaris]

Actually, haplogroup HV (the ancestral haplogroup to haplogroup H and haplogroup V) and even H have been found among the paleolithic people aswell, so some of these samples marked as neolithic could have been paleolithic (hunter-gatherers). U has been the most common during the paleolithic era though.

[Prisoner Of Ice]

I find it funny that there's 16% paleolithic female mtdna but 0% male y-dna. So seriously, there was not one male line that survived? I don't find that too likely.