domingo, 1 de julio de 2012

Scottish lecturer found to be 'grandfather of everyone in Britain'

A retired lecturer who took a DNA test to find out where his ancestors came from has been found to be directly descended from the first woman on earth, who lived 190,000 years ago.

Ian Kinnaird, 72, has a genetic marker inherited from his mother that traces his ancestry to an African lineage that has not been found before in Western Europe.

Researchers from Britain’s DNA, who carried out the tests, said the result meant that in genetic terms he was a “thoroughbred”, and could be described as the “grandson of Eve, or the grandfather of everyone in Britain”.

They were so surprised by the results that they phoned Mr Kinnaird, a widower who lives in the far north of Scotland, to break the news to him.

They told him his mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), passed through the female line, was 30,000 years old and only two genetic mutations removed from the first woman, while most men have a genome with around 200 mutations since the earliest humans.

Alistair Moffat, the historian and rector of St Andrews University, who was involved in setting up the DNA project, said: “It is an astonishing result and means he could have been in the 'Garden of Eden’... telegraph.co.uk

1 comentario:

Maju dijo...

Está super-mal explicado, lo que pasa es que tiene el linaje L1b que está relacionado con África Occidental pero parece pre-Neolítico en Europa.

Pero descendientes directos de "Eva mitocondrial", tod*s lo somos por igual (al principio pensé que era un chiste pero no: sólo que el periodista es un zote).