Britain: A Genetic Journey

The British: A Genetic Journey

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    Become a LibraryThing Author. A unique genetic study, undertaken for the BBC documentary Motherland: For the first time since the enslavement of their African ancestors and the eradication of their ethnic identities, advances in DNA analysis have now made it possible for individuals to discover from which African region or population group their families originated.

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    In an historic first, a Bristol woman who took part in the study was even able to track down African relatives living on a tiny island off the coast of Cameroon. The vast majority of the UK's African-Caribbean community are descended from the millions of Africans taken from their families and homes to work as slaves on the Caribbean sugar plantations.

    The study, the most comprehensive attempt so far to investigate the specific roots of the descendants of slaves, took anonymous DNA samples via a buccal swab from volunteers men and women.

    The only criterion for all volunteers was that they had four African-Caribbean grandparents. As well as individual ancestral profiles, the Motherland study also quantifies, for the first time, one of the most sensitive genetic legacies of the transatlantic slave trade: Today, the study reveals more than one in four British African-Caribbeans have white male ancestry on their direct fatherline. Dr Mark Jobling, from the University of Leicester, who analysed the Y chromosome, said of his findings: As part of his analysis Dr Mark Shriver, of Penn State University, also examined the link between ancestry and pigmentation.

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    The period when human relatives first arrived in Britain — the period, geologically speaking, in which we still live — has swung between ice ages and relatively warm interludes such as we enjoy today. Andrews, the Kingdom of Fife, or the People of Scotland, to engage in profiteering at the expense of scientific and commercial honesty. People with similar patterns of genetic variation are grouped into clusters, and each is given a distinct coloured symbol. If we could reliably go back far enough we would probably find that vast numbers of us can claim some royal connection. The first settlers entered Britain across Doggerland, the lowlands of what is now the North Sea, probably following animals such as reindeer, or travelled in boats along the Atlantic coast to the western parts of Britain.

    He concludes that although African ancestry can be a rough guide to how light or dark a person is, appearances can be deceptive.