Study claims that Irishmen descended from Turkish farmers

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Default Study claims that Irishmen descended from Turkish farmers


A new study has revealed that many Irish men may be able to trace their roots back to Turkey. Focusing on the role of the Y chromosome, which is passed from father to son, the research indicates Turkish farmers arrived in Ireland about 6,000 years ago, bringing agriculture with them. And they may have been more attractive than the hunter-gatherers whom they replaced.




The genetic patterns for Irish females differ from those of men. “Most maternal genetic lineages seem to descend from hunter-gatherers,” an author of the study, Patricia Balaresque, told the London Times. “To us, this suggests a reproductive advantage for farming males over indigenous hunter-gatherer males during the switch to farming.

“Maybe, it was just sexier to be a farmer,” she added.

Eighty-five per cent of Irish men are descended from farming people from the Middle East and especially Turkey, according to the research that was conducted by scientists at the University of Leicester.

The switch from hunting and gathering to farming was a crucial one in human development. Increased food production meant that populations were able to grow.

In Britain, 60-65 per cent of the population has the Turkish genetic pattern, while in parts of the Iberian Peninsula it’s almost as the same as in Ireland. The research contradicts what was previously thought about Irish genealogy – that hunter-gatherers from Spain and Portugal who survived the Ice Age were our main genetic ancestors.

“This particular kind of Y chromosome follows a gradient, gradually increasing in frequency from Turkey and the southeast of Europe to Ireland, where it reaches its highest frequency,” Mark Jobling from the University of Leicester told the Times.

We are saying that most of that original hunter-gatherer male population in Ireland was probably replaced by incoming agricultural populations,” he added.


http://www.irishcentral.com/roots/ne...237788351.html

I had always suspected that the Irish fighting spirit comes from the Turks.

[Prism]

[AverageKorhonen]

The other day they were Basques, now Turkish... Irish = the Pentaracials of Europe.

[Nurzat]

I had always suspected that the Irish fighting spirit comes from the Turks.

Y-DNA haplogroup doesn't keep anything really. so it just doesn't matter. it's the autosomal composition that matters. and in that respect Irishmen have nothing Turkish but a low rate of Neolithic genes, still less of them than most of Europe

[EL_BARBARO]

How on earth had I figured it out?

That was so obvious...

Congratulations to the researchers.

[European Knight]

You should be free to say where you come from

[Kamal900]

Dumb shit. They have nothing to do with Turks, and they meant that they are descended from neolithic farmers originated in Anatolia and near East(R1b carriers). Turkish people are predominately genetically Anatolian, and the Turkic peoples play no role in the formation of today's Irish or European peoples generally.

[♥ Lily ♥]

How much many pints did you drink when you posted that?

[Aëlwenn]

I had always suspected that the Irish fighting spirit comes from the Turks.

The Fighting Spirit is a Celtic thing

[CordedWhelp]

I'll bet this clickbait was displayed everywhere. Not actual news, but a strange narrative-driven spin on "there were some folks in europe for a while, then folks who technically came from the near east came a bit later...."