Talk:List of genetic results derived from historical figures

I don't believe the discussion of Naill of the Nine Hostages is exactly on target. This for several reasons.
 * 1. All men share the same Y-Chromosome.  You don't have to be descended from a 10th century Irish war lord for that to be true.  The point is that they share the same haplotype, R1b1c7.


 * 2. That haplotype probably did not originate with Niall. Rather, he was probably one of the earlier descendants of the ancestor that developed that M222 mutation set.  Because that group as a whole was extraordinarily successful in their local environment, they produced a disporportionately larger number of offspring---who survived to produce a magnified appearance in the YDNA results that we see to day.  In otherwords, they outbred their competitors.  And that's the way evolution works.  But this shouldn't be construed as saying that those with the R1b1c7 hapotype are descended from Niall.  His brothers and immediate grandsires (back to the point of original of the haplotype) had something to do with it too.

Bill 00:14, 5 September 2007 (UTC)