Thread: Who's who in Europe - East and West.... (How European is Russia...?)

Originally Posted by Basil77

Let me guess:
Red - Celtic
Yellow - Slavic (Scandinavia, why so Slavic?, lol)
Violet - Mongol
Cyan - Nordic
Green - Arab
Beige - Negro

Honestly, I don't know anything about how this works, I just thought the map was funky!
But I don't think it's as simple as just being about race. It could be about things like DNA, bloodtype etc.

Russia might be too ethnically diverse for this to be relevant at all...

Finland is a cool case because they have a lot of the purple colour... they are allegedly from somehere in the far East of Russia, not massively related to the rest of Scandinavians, despite being blonde. They have higher cheekbones and some people look noticeably different.

I remember from school that Scandinavia was populated by people who migrated from Germany upwards. Apart from the Sami people - their origins are somewhat mysterious.

The way we are going now though, Arab and East African genes will be very common in a couple of generations!

Originally Posted by Doomer

I know one guy on this forum who will be really disappointed, because Baltic countries haplotypes look almost the same as Russian haplotypes

Haha, yes Нулле, you might as well start speaking only Russian from now on. Your blood is practically Russian, it's proven right there... LOL!!!

http://misterdavid.typepad.com/.a/6a...6f02970c-800wi

...But I don't think it's as simple as just being about race. It could be about things like DNA, bloodtype etc...

There is actually very little on the Y chromosome. Most important thing is SRY gene, for triggering male development. Y chromosome codes for only about ~86 genes and ~23 proteins. Compare to whole human genome in 23 homologous pairs, ~23,000 proteins and ~1,000,000 genes. Y chromosome contains large amounts of non-coding DNA. As far as I know there is nothing abnormal about any of the haplotypes on the map, no oncogenes, no disorders. All other chromosome pairs sort independently, and have crossovers. Y doesn't undergo crossovers. Very little info in the Y haplotype map.