On Nov 7, 2006, at 11:10 PM, Kragen Javier Sitaker wrote:
On Thu, 05 Oct 2006 20:47:31 +0530, sastry wrote:
On Thu October 5 2006 8:09 pm, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
IIRC, another DNA tied a demolition crew supervisor to Genghis Khan
in the first chapter of HHGTTG [1].
IIRC Gengis Khan genes have been found in 25% (or some such
ridiculously high proportion) of all humans.
I looked for evidence of this assertion, and I didn't find any;
apparently Genghis's corpse has been lost for some time, so nobody
knows what his genes were. At least, that's what most of the
references I found said. Do you have an update?
Recently participated in the National Geographic Genographic survey
and discovered that I was part of haplogroup C3, descended from
Genghis Kahn on my Dad's side. As a part of the results, they offered
the following stats: 1 in 200 contemporary human males is haplogroup
C3, but the bulk of these are in Central and Eastern Asia where the
rate is as high as 1 in 10 males.
For more on the genographic survey:
https://www3.nationalgeographic.com/genographic/
Wikipedia has a reasonably good article as well:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_C3_%28Y-DNA%29
jb
PS - I realize this was a very late followup, but I was doing some
coincidental e-mail archaeology on this and came up with this thread
from way back when...
