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Half of European men share King Tut's DNA
Reuters ^
| Mon Aug 1, 2011
| Alice Baghdjian
Posted on 08/01/2011 10:50:56 PM PDT by annie laurie
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.
Around 70 percent of Spanish and 60 percent of French men also belong to the genetic group of the Pharaoh who ruled Egypt more than 3,000 years ago.
(Excerpt) Read more at af.reuters.com ...
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Sorry for excerpting, but although Reuters isn't on the excerpt-only list, I seem to remember some brouhaha involving them (re: copyright issues), so I decided better safe than sorry.
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
08/01/2011 10:51:43 PM PDT
by
annie laurie
(All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost)
To: annie laurie
That 9 year old child has been bizzzyyyy.
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posted on
08/01/2011 10:58:19 PM PDT
by
Jonty30
To: Jonty30
That 9 year old child has been bizzzyyyy. He was 18 when he died.
To: annie laurie
So much for being born in Arizona!
5
posted on
08/01/2011 11:36:43 PM PDT
by
getarope
(I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick ass, and I am all out of bubble gum!)
To: getarope
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posted on
08/01/2011 11:37:44 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: Salamander
Pssssst!
Kinda shoots that “Negro-centric-Egyptian” theory all to hell in a handbasket, eh?
(Still waiting for those jet planes buried under the sand.....)
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posted on
08/01/2011 11:38:47 PM PDT
by
shibumi
(The ragged they come and The ragged they kill! Down in the cool air I can see.)
To: Paleo Conservative
He would still have to be bizzy at 9 to impregnate enough womman so half of Europe are descended from him.
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posted on
08/01/2011 11:39:05 PM PDT
by
Jonty30
To: getarope
But he moved to Babylonia!
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posted on
08/01/2011 11:40:24 PM PDT
by
shibumi
(The ragged they come and The ragged they kill! Down in the cool air I can see.)
To: Paleo Conservative
He gave his life for tourism.
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posted on
08/01/2011 11:41:05 PM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: Jonty30
The article didn’t say that 50 per cent of European men were descended from King Tut. It said that they share a common ancestor with King Tut.
To: dfwgator
To: annie laurie
It looks like his relatives headed for greener pastures. I wonder if the wild animals that live there now came from somewhere else.
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posted on
08/01/2011 11:48:31 PM PDT
by
Moonman62
(The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
To: annie laurie
Amazingly enough about 70% of the time you can tell a person is British just by seeing their teeth.
Coincidence?
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posted on
08/01/2011 11:48:50 PM PDT
by
YankeeinOkieville
(Obamanation [oh-bom-uh-nay-shuhn] n. -- ignorance and arrogance in the highest offices)
To: Paleo Conservative
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posted on
08/02/2011 12:06:15 AM PDT
by
Jonty30
To: annie laurie
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To: annie laurie
Doo Yoo meen that therz a 50-50 chans that I’m deesendid from sumwun Hoo marreed his own sister?
To: annie laurie
The other half are related to Bill Clinton.
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posted on
08/02/2011 12:52:12 AM PDT
by
exnavy
(May the Lord bless and keep our troops.)
To: shibumi
But he moved to Babylonia! That's cause he was a Jerk.
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posted on
08/02/2011 1:38:53 AM PDT
by
Talisker
(History will show the Illuminati won the ultimate Darwin Award.)
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