Tag Archives: genetics

21 Apr 09

Svenskar

The Swedish speaking finns or Svenskar constitute an important minority in Finland, but their genetic origins are a little uncertain (see wikipedia), there being much argument about how much immigration from Sweden happened and how much assimilation into the language of government was made. A study just made appears to confirm that there was a [...]
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10 Feb 09

Genetic Map of Europe 2

Another map and model of predicting where a person will come from in europe based on his genetics.(via) It is only based on common variations and not rare ones so the chances are that the map can be made more accurate in the future at least until the genetic pool gets more mixed up with [...]
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5 Sep 08

Genetic Map of Europe

Biologists have made a genetic map of Europe which as you can see roughly resembles Europe Geographically. The map also identifies the existence of two genetic barriers within Europe. One is between the Finns (light blue, upper right) and other Europeans. It arose because the Finnish population was at one time very small and then [...]
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