First irish genome sequenced

fontanalis

Any hard core biology heads here aware of this and is there anyhting worth getting excited over?
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100907071357.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+sciencedaily+(ScienceDaily:+Latest+Science+News)

Kevster

Thanks for the link. I wonder what they define as a "suitable" Irish male...! I presume they mean one who has a long ancestry of Irish relatives. I mean - let's face it - much of those in Ireland have roots elsewhere in the world (...right?).

I'm doing some research in a similar area but would find it very interesting to see the extent to which the Irish have 'invaded' the American east coast! The concentration probably dips as you move towards the west coast, obviously. You'd need to sample a lot of Irish-American's tofor such a study though.

The 'Galaxy' programme they refer to in that articl is available free-for-use on the Uni of California Santa Cruz's (UCSC's) genome browser website: http://genome.ucsc.edu/

Kevin

fontanalis

Kevster wrote: »

Thanks for the link. I wonder what they define as a "suitable" Irish male...! I presume they mean one who has a long ancestry of Irish relatives. I mean - let's face it - much of those in Ireland have roots elsewhere in the world (...right?).

I'm doing some research in a similar area but would find it very interesting to see the extent to which the Irish have 'invaded' the American east coast! The concentration probably dips as you move towards the west coast, obviously. You'd need to sample a lot of Irish-American's tofor such a study though.

The 'Galaxy' programme they refer to in that articl is available free-for-use on the Uni of California Santa Cruz's (UCSC's) genome browser website: http://genome.ucsc.edu/

Kevin

I think in other genetic studies they look for someone whose grandparents (possibly older geneeration) were from the same area. I think they also look at the surname and try to see if there is a gaelic name going back as far as possible.

Kevster

How far back to records go, do you know? I wonder about the name thing too, because I'd say that many of us who have English surnames have actually got long Irish roots. Maybe our ancestors merely changed our surname to an English version during 'the invasion' to hide our 'Irishness'...?

Regarding me, for example: when I research my surname in Irish, there are actually records going way back long before the English arrived here.

Disclaimer: i'm NOT a historian!

Kevin

fontanalis

Try this section for a better answer.
http://boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=1288
From what I understand surnames were started to be used from the 9th or 10th century onwards. But like you say they could be changed for many reasons.