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The DNA of Britain

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nameslessone

nameslessone Report 19 Mar 2015 09:48

Amazing research done on the DNA of Britain . Well worth looking at.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3000998/Are-Welsh-truest-Brits-English-genomes-contain-German-French-DNA-Romans-left-no-trace.html

Kense

Kense Report 19 Mar 2015 11:09

Yes it is very interesting.

If you prefer a non-Daily Mail version then try:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-31946436
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-31905764

nameslessone

nameslessone Report 19 Mar 2015 14:37

If you don't want to read the Daily Mail version with plenty of diagrams then you might as well just go straight to the full report:

http://www.nature.com/articles/nature14230.epdf?referrer_access_token=StbNH-5BdkSNs8cqcVNLrdRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0MiE0_B2kFTYAb64eH_EPxJeiJzg
7Mfl6MEBC6p_EUzUhn20X4WGsMhORPh_wQWF0XWfuvis
22UqrLNVuhlijqXTxOXx-26amOZUjUE9AICb_6Nw0oQxV-xs8GMPjlYpJwSdczLMmDt6Wtm73BdwvhZ&
tracking_referrer=www.bbc.co.uk

I'm sure someone will come up with a tinyurl for that.

Kense

Kense Report 19 Mar 2015 15:47

Is this the one?
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v519/n7543/pdf/nature14230.pdf