Africans in Yorkshire? The deepest-rooting clade of the Y phylogeny within an English genealogy

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dc.contributor.authorKing, Turi E
dc.contributor.authorParkin, Emma J
dc.contributor.authorSwinfield, Geoff
dc.contributor.authorCruciani, Fulvio
dc.contributor.authorScozzari, Rosaria
dc.contributor.authorRosa, Alexandra
dc.contributor.authorLim, Si-Keun
dc.contributor.authorXue, Yali
dc.contributor.authorTyler-Smith, Chris
dc.contributor.authorJobling, Mark A
dc.date.accessioned2019-08-14T14:59:49Z
dc.date.available2019-08-14T14:59:49Z
dc.date.issued2007
dc.description.abstractThe presence of Africans in Britain has been recorded since Roman times, but has left no apparent genetic trace among modern inhabitants. Y chromosomes belonging to the deepest rooting clade of the Y phylogeny, haplogroup (hg) A, are regarded as African-specific, and no examples have been reported from Britain or elsewhere in Western Europe. We describe the presence of an hgA1 chromosome in an indigenous British male; comparison with African examples suggests a Western African origin. Seven out of 18 men carrying the same rare east-Yorkshire surname as the original male also carry hgA1 chromosomes, and documentary research resolves them into two genealogies with most-recent-common ancestors living in Yorkshire in the late 18th century. Analysis using 77 Y-short tandem repeats (STRs) is consistent with coalescence a few generations earlier. Our findings represent the first genetic evidence of Africans among ‘indigenous’ British, and emphasize the complexity of human migration history as well as the pitfalls of assigning geographical origin from Y-chromosomal haplotypes.
dc.description.urihttp://www.nature.com/ejhg/journal/v15/n3/full/5201771a.html
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/vhva-jgpy
dc.identifier.citationKing, Turi E and Parkin, Emma J and Swinfield, Geoff and Cruciani, Fulvio and Scozzari, Rosaria and Rosa, Alexandra and Lim, Si-Keun and Xue, Yali and Tyler-Smith, Chris and Jobling, Mark A (2007) Africans in Yorkshire? The deepest-rooting clade of the Y phylogeny within an English genealogy. European Journal of Human Genetics, 15 (1). pp. 288-293.
dc.identifier.otherEprint ID 611
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/22654
dc.subjectstudies
dc.subjectGenetics and Race
dc.subjectY chromosome
dc.subjecthaplogroup
dc.subjectAfrican
dc.subjectsurnames
dc.subjectgenealogy
dc.subjectY-STRs
dc.titleAfricans in Yorkshire? The deepest-rooting clade of the Y phylogeny within an English genealogy
dc.typeArticle

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