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[SIZE=+1]LONDON[/SIZE][SIZE=+1] (Reuters) - Irish geneticists have used surnames and the male Y chromosome to reconstruct a one thousand year-old genetic map of Ireland that shows the Irish really are a race apart.[/SIZE] [SIZE=+1]"When you look at this old genetic geography of Ireland what you find is that in the West (of the country) we are almost exclusively of one type of Y chromosome," Daniel Bradley told Reuters.[/SIZE] [SIZE=+1]The Y chromosome is passed down exclusively from father to son. It is a favourite of geneticists because it accentuates differences between populations.[/SIZE] [SIZE=+1]"It is inherited as a unit so the information you get from it is of a special type," Bradley said in a telephone interview.[/SIZE] [SIZE=+1]Bradley and his colleagues at Trinity College in Dublin examined the Y chromosomes of men with Gaelic surnames in the western-most province of Connaught, and found that 98.3 percent had a group of genes on the Y chromosome known as haplogroup 1.[/SIZE] [SIZE=+1]"When you look at Gaelic surnames they are different in frequency of Y chromosome types from non- Gaelic surnames," Bradley said.[/SIZE] [SIZE=+1]In a report in the science journal Nature, he and his colleagues said that even within Ireland they found differences.[/SIZE] [SIZE=+1]More than 98 percent of men with Gaelic names in western Ireland had haplogroup 1 but numbers dropped drastically on the east of the Emerald Isle.[/SIZE] [SIZE=+1]Much further east in Turkey only 1.8 percent of men carry haplogroup 1.[/SIZE] [SIZE=+1]"Ireland may tell us something about European diversity because it is on the edge of Europe. Genetic diversity follows geography to some extent," Bradley said.[/SIZE] [SIZE=+1]The researchers said there is a gradient of haplogroup 1 across Europe starting at almost zero in the Far East to almost 100 percent in the west of Ireland.[/SIZE]
