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DYS426=12), then 22% were in the former category and 78% in the latter. Hence anunknown percentage of Ashkenazi may be R-U152 (or R-U106 as well as R-M269*).The Jewish R DNA Project has an increasing number of members who have tested R-U152. Although the reported ancestral origin of members of this project includecountries from Latvia on the Baltic south to Ukraine in Eastern Europe. It appears likelythat their ancestors migrated from the Upper Rhine area, the first documented reference isto Cologne on the Rhine in 391 AD, and soon after to Worms and Mainz – all in thesouth of Germany. At a later point the Ashkenazi Jews shifted their center of gravity tothe east (as far east as Russia and the Ukraine). Some in that region may be due to localintrogression, but the percentage of R-U152 in Russia for example is likely to be low tonon-existant. There are a few haplotypes, clearly related, but with high diversity, thatsuggest a founder effect where a few R-U152 men may have been the ancestors of a verylarge number of Jewish men living today in Eastern Europe. Most have not been testedfor DYS492, but there is a large diverse group with a rare haplotype (e.g., DYS385a=14)and the DYS492=14 which places them in a clade found most commonly in southernGermans. Other Ashkenazi have the modal value of 12 (or in one case 11), which is stillthe most common motif across the R-U152 world.Commercial Testing Summary of U152-R-U152 by Country and Region:Table 1. Geographical distribution of U152 tested and other R-M269 derivedindividualsOrigin - + Total %England 30 4 34 12Europe 12 7 19 37Ireland 47 0 47 0Scotland 21 1 22 5unknown 52 1 53 2Wales 4 0 4 0Total 166 13 179 7The above table was completed 27 October 2006, based on data then available, by Dr.John McEwen. He indicates that the data points to a number of conclusions. The first is thehigh % of those tested in Europe in haplogroup R (defined as west of the Black Sea) that areU152+ and the second is that the level in England is one third of Europe, and it declines again inScotland and Ireland. These results do have some biases, but they coincide with other evidence.The numbers publicly available strongly support a high prevalence in Europe.See full analysis click here.Other Haplogroups: It is also very likely that the La Tene Celts were composed ofother haplogroups, although perhaps none so plentiful as R-U152. It is likely that eachmoved up the Danube or into the eastern La Tene Celtic territories at varying times.Investigations by Ken Nordtvedt (personal communication, 2007), suggest that these arespecific groupings which tend to cluster in areas where the La Tene Celts were known to47