{"id":230,"date":"2014-08-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yule-tide.generalsemiotics.net\/index.php\/2014\/08\/01\/post-223-kinsfolk-by-the-millions-or-my-y-chromosomes-story\/"},"modified":"2014-08-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-01T00:00:00","slug":"post-223-kinsfolk-by-the-millions-or-my-y-chromosomes-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/2014\/08\/01\/post-223-kinsfolk-by-the-millions-or-my-y-chromosomes-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Post-223: Kinsfolk by the Millions (Or, My Y-Chromosome Story) (Or, What the Heck is “R1b-U106”?)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Map of frequency of my Y-chromosome (father’s father’s father’s…etc.) [From here<\/a>] <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
My Y-chromosome line is R1b-U106<\/strong>, determined by a professional test my father did last year. Above is a map of its distribution in Europe today. The darker the color, the more men native to that region have this Y-chromosome.

<\/span><\/span>My father had this Y-chromosome, as did his, father, and his father before him, and so on. Every man’s Y-chromsome is passed on in the same way as we pass on surnames. All those with R1b-U106 will share the same male ancestor (father’s father’s father’s father’s….etc.). Nobody really knows how long ago or where that man lived. <\/div>\n
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Whoever that Stone Age man was, he has millions of descendants alive today: 20% of Englishmen, 19% of German men, 17% of Danish men, 13% of Swiss men, and an astonishing 35% of Dutchmen. Also, 15% of White American men. This means that in the USA, about 15 million men have this Y-chromosome line; tens of millions more in Europe. (Sample sizes for these are not big [Wiki<\/a>], so give or take).
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Famous people known to be R1b-U106 (from here<\/a>):<\/p>\n
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  • U.S. Civil War General (and later President) Ulysses S. Grant<\/strong>,<\/li>\n
  • U.S. President Polk<\/strong>,<\/li>\n
  • The royal Bourbon line<\/strong> of France, including the king they beheaded after the 1789 French Revolution (multiple descendants tested to determine this).\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n
    Because this just deals with a shared patrilineal ancestor some large number of generations ago, it actually doesn’t tell anything directly about a person’s overall ancestry. For that, another test is needed (which is not yet totally reliable).


    Note on Names:<\/strong> T<\/span><\/span><\/span>he R1b-U106 Y chromosome variant is sometimes called R1b-S21, other times called R1b-M405, and formerly called the totally-unmemorizable “R1b1b2a1a1”. That’s what we get for the field of genetic testing being so new. From what I can tell, by 2014, R1b-U106 is now the dominant name.\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Map of frequency of my Y-chromosome (father’s father’s father’s…etc.) [From here] My Y-chromosome line is R1b-U106, determined by a professional test my father did last year. Above is a map of its distribution in Europe today. The darker the color, the more men native to that region have this Y-chromosome.My father had this Y-chromosome, as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yule-tide.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}