Posted on 08/14/2006 6:17:14 PM PDT by blam
DNA test can detect Picts' descendants
By Auslan Cramb, Scottish Correspondent
(Filed: 14/08/2006)
A geneticist has created a DNA test for "Scottishness" that will tell people whether they are direct descendants of the Picts.
The test, expected to cost about £130, checks a sample of saliva against 27 genetic markers linked to some of the earliest inhabitants of Scotland.
Dr Jim Wilson, of the public health sciences department at Edinburgh University, said: "We started this work a few years ago, looking at the Norse component, and we proved that a large proportion of people on Orkney are descended from Vikings.
"Now the markers have moved on massively and we have discovered that we can trace back the component of the indigenous Picts by looking at the unique grouping of their Y-chromosome. We believe that this would have been found only in Scotland."
Scientists were able to isolate the unique Pictish DNA strands from 1,000-year-old bone fragments found in ancient burial grounds
This is not news. As a direct decendent of a true Viking, I'm probably related to half the peope on the planet.
Hey what can I say, they got around.
Where do you think the Irish got their red hair, the Scott's their frugalness and bad tempers, the English their common laws, the Russians an end to complete political anarchy, who opened trade routes with China and the Middle East before that guy Marco somebody and who first discovered "the New World"?
It wasn't the French. (and even the Normans were not French but the decendents of Vikings.)
If you pass the Pict test are you then required to paint yourself with wold (blue) then stand buck naked in a bog
Of course when it came to Scotland, the Vikings acquired the redhair from their trusty Irish masters who were busy reducing the Picts to a fine nothingness.
I'm not sure there were any Picts around in 1000 AD.
And bleach your hair?
Well...one can always hope...;)
Here is an article that speaks to DNA use for us amateurs http://www.presstelegram.com/news/ci_4144963
No, but there was one called "Several species of small furry animals gathered together in a cave and grooving with a pict".
Although you have to stretch the meaning of the word "song" to cover it...
Duh... but then again proof is proof, I guess.
That's right, now I can even hear the words being sung...er, said.
I thought the English disliked anyone not an Englishman.
Most Viking strerotypes were promulgated by the English their enemies. Sort of like if we asked around in the Middle East today for an accurate description of Americans. Vikings were technologically more advanced than mainland Europeans. That's how they dominated them in war and yes even "culture". English women appreciated that Viking men used combs and bathed often something it took awhile for the Englishmen to figure out.
They look for the Glenfiddich label.
I thought that the test for "Scottishness" used a quarter and a storm grate.
Aye laddie. Hacking a few Angles with your Claymore isn't a bad idee either.
Actually, it's
Several Species Of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together In A Cave And Grooving With A Pict
Sing along, everybody!
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL, you are so right.LMAO
Funny, I know that's RAH, but the first part sounds a bit like something from Archy and Mehitabel, by an author whose first name was Don, can't for the life of me remember his last name.
He was an early 20th century newsman/columnist.
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