Massive New Genetics Study for Britain and Ireland

A huge and exciting new study has just been published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) on human genetic variation in Scotland and the Isles - but really it looks at variation across Britain and Ireland (and into Iceland). The study significantly increases the number of testers and geographic resolution of different genetic groups. I am still digesting the results - and implications for the Sproul DNA Project. More on this later. For starters, at the end of this blog is a key dendrogram and map from the study.

The study title, author and link for a free copy are below -

The genetic landscape of Scotland and the Isles

Edmund Gilbert, Seamus O’Reilly, Michael Merrigan, Darren McGettigan, Veronique Vitart, Peter K. Joshi, David W. Clark, Harry Campbell, Caroline Hayward, Susan M. Ring, Jean Golding, Stephanie Goodfellow, Pau Navarro, Shona M. Kerr, Carmen Amador, Archie Campbell, Chris S. Haley, David J. Porteous, Gianpiero L. Cavalleri, and James F. Wilson

PNAS first published September 3, 2019 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1904761116

https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2019/08/27/1904761116