08-10-2006, 05:26 PM
Hi
I posted early in this thread that there was no "Germanic" haplogroup that can be traced, as that is a linguistic term. However I have been aware of an study in Human Biology (2201) in which Haplotype 5 has been identified as Berber. Together with other high resolution DNA studies (44 Y-chromosome biallelic polymorphisms) an study in The American Journal of Human Genetics (2001) claims to have identified moorish genetic flow to Spain, supposedly arriving after the Arab conquest, and it has been estimated to account for 7% of modern Iberian genetic pool. So it is possible that a "Germanic" haplotype could be eventually found as a useful marker, however the diferences in the genetic pool of Iberia and North Africa are much greater than those of Britain and Denmark.
I posted early in this thread that there was no "Germanic" haplogroup that can be traced, as that is a linguistic term. However I have been aware of an study in Human Biology (2201) in which Haplotype 5 has been identified as Berber. Together with other high resolution DNA studies (44 Y-chromosome biallelic polymorphisms) an study in The American Journal of Human Genetics (2001) claims to have identified moorish genetic flow to Spain, supposedly arriving after the Arab conquest, and it has been estimated to account for 7% of modern Iberian genetic pool. So it is possible that a "Germanic" haplotype could be eventually found as a useful marker, however the diferences in the genetic pool of Iberia and North Africa are much greater than those of Britain and Denmark.
AKA Inaki