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Scottish DNA: What is the Genetic History of Scotland?
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:33 Formation & Peoples of Scotland
3:05 Ice Age & Early Genetics
4:32 Bell Beakers, Steppe Ancestry & Neanderthal DNA
6:09 Get Access to Member-Only Videos
6:31 Picts, Britons & Gaels
8:25 Difference Between Scotland & England/Wales
10:00 Romans & Anglo-Saxons
12:02 Vikings, Norse-Gaels & Gallowglass
14:08 Normans, Scottish Clans, Bruce DNA & Later Migrations
15:14 Scottish DNA Haplogroups
16:29 Genetic Landscape of Scotland
Sources:
Flint tools point to humans in Scotland 14,000 years ago | The Herald
Tools dating back 11,000 years found on Skye - BBC News
Olalde, I., Brace, S., Allentoft, M. et al. The Beaker phenomenon and the genomic transformation of northwest Europe. Nature 555, 190–196 (2018). doi.org/10.1038/nature25738
K. Dulias et al. Ancient DNA at the edge of the world: Continental immigration and the persistence of Neolithic male lineages in Bronze Age Orkney, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 119 (8) e2108001119, doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2108001119 (2022).
Morez A et al. (2023) Imputed genomes and haplotype-based analyses of the Picts of early medieval Scotland reveal fine-scale relatedness between Iron Age, early medieval and the modern people of the UK. PLoS Genet 19(4): e1010360. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1010360
Patterson, N., Isakov, M., Booth, T. et al. Large-scale migration into Britain during the Middle to Late Bronze Age. Nature 601, 588–594 (2022). doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-04287-4
FamilyTreeDNA Discover - Y-DNA Haplogroup R-FTB15831
Scottish Genetic Landscape Echoes the DNA of Past Kingdoms | Viking Genes
Scotland's genetic landscape reflects Dark Age populations - BBC News
Scottish people - Wikipedia
Clan Bruce - Wikipedia
E. Gilbert et al. The genetic landscape of Scotland and the Isles, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 116 (38) 19064-19070, doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1904761116 (2019).
mtDNA and the Islands of the North Atlantic: Estimating the Proportions of Norse and Gaelic Ancestry Helgason, Agnar et al. The American Journal of Human Genetics, Volume 68, Issue 3, 723 - 737
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Scottish DNA: What is the Genetic History of Scotland?
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:33 Formation & Peoples of Scotland
3:05 Ice Age & Early Genetics
4:32 Bell Beakers, Steppe Ancestry & Neanderthal DNA
6:09 Get Access to Member-Only Videos
6:31 Picts, Britons & Gaels
8:25 Difference Between Scotland & England/Wales
10:00 Romans & Anglo-Saxons
12:02 Vikings, Norse-Gaels & Gallowglass
14:08 Normans, Scottish Clans, Bruce DNA & Later Migrations
15:14 Scottish DNA Haplogroups
16:29 Genetic Landscape of Scotland
Sources:
Flint tools point to humans in Scotland 14,000 years ago | The Herald
Tools dating back 11,000 years found on Skye - BBC News
Olalde, I., Brace, S., Allentoft, M. et al. The Beaker phenomenon and the genomic transformation of northwest Europe. Nature 555, 190–196 (2018). doi.org/10.1038/nature25738
K. Dulias et al. Ancient DNA at the edge of the world: Continental immigration and the persistence of Neolithic male lineages in Bronze Age Orkney, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 119 (8) e2108001119, doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2108001119 (2022).
Morez A et al. (2023) Imputed genomes and haplotype-based analyses of the Picts of early medieval Scotland reveal fine-scale relatedness between Iron Age, early medieval and the modern people of the UK. PLoS Genet 19(4): e1010360. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1010360
Patterson, N., Isakov, M., Booth, T. et al. Large-scale migration into Britain during the Middle to Late Bronze Age. Nature 601, 588–594 (2022). doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-04287-4
FamilyTreeDNA Discover - Y-DNA Haplogroup R-FTB15831
Scottish Genetic Landscape Echoes the DNA of Past Kingdoms | Viking Genes
Scotland's genetic landscape reflects Dark Age populations - BBC News
Scottish people - Wikipedia
Clan Bruce - Wikipedia
E. Gilbert et al. The genetic landscape of Scotland and the Isles, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 116 (38) 19064-19070, doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1904761116 (2019).
mtDNA and the Islands of the North Atlantic: Estimating the Proportions of Norse and Gaelic Ancestry Helgason, Agnar et al. The American Journal of Human Genetics, Volume 68, Issue 3, 723 - 737
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Hogweard File:Map of the Kingdom of Northumbria around 700 AD.svg - Wikimedia Commons Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. Deed - Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International - Creative Commons
© Sémhur / Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY-SA-3.0 (or Free Art License) File:Kingdom of Mann and the Isles-en.svg - Wikimedia Commons Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, 2.5 Generic, 2.0 Generic and 1.0 Generic license. Deed - Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 Generic - Creative Commons
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