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Re:1 in 200 of men alive today are direct descendants of Gen... by apaprocki on Saturday August 06, 2011 @07:26AM (#2853627)
What is really annoying about articles like these is that they don't actually tell you the Y-DNA haplotypes or SNPs in the phylogenic graph. Even if it isn't cluttering up the main article it would be great to have as footnote information for those of us who actually know our Y-DNA information.

Sure enough, by clicking through and getting to the real journal article, this is the footnote that accompanies the graph which is duplicated in the Discover article:

  Figure 1 - Median-joining network (Bandelt et al. 1999) 
  representing Y-chromosomal variation within haplogroup C*
  (xC3c). Chromosomes were typed with a minimum of 16 binary 
  markers (Qamar et al. 2002; Zerjal et al. 2002; our 
  unpublished observations), including RPS4Y and M48, to 
  define the lineage C*(xC3c) (Y-Chromosome-Consortium 2002), 
  also known as haplogroup 10, derived for RPS4Y and 
  ancestral for M48. Sixteen Y microsatellites were also 
  typed, but DYS19 was excluded from the network analysis 
  because it is duplicated in haplogroup C. The central star-
  cluster profile is 10-16-25-10-11-13-14-12-11-11-11-12-8-10-
  10, for the loci DYS389I-DYS389b-DYS390-DYS391-DYS392-
  DYS393-DYS388-DYS425-DYS426-DYS434-DYS435-DYS436-DYS437-
  DYS438-DYS439. Circles represent lineages, area is 
  proportional to frequency, and color indicates population 
  of origin. Lines represent microsatellite mutational 
  differences.
If you are interested in DNA and haven't tested your own Y/mt-DNA, I highly recommend getting it tested (e.g. FamilyTreeDNA) and finding out a little bit more about yourself.
Re:1 in 200 of men alive today are direct descendants of Gen... by pella on Saturday August 06, 2011 @09:02AM (#2853738)
"According to Family Tree DNA, Genghis Khan is believed to have belonged to Haplogroup C3."

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"One particular haplotype within Haplogroup C3 has received a great deal of attention for the possibility that it may represent direct patrilineal descent from Genghis Khan." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_C3_(Y-DNA)