Dr. Nouna Bakhiet

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Poker Face No More
snippets of
How
genes reveal
your ancestry
Tuesday November 10 11-1150 AM Room 302 MESA
Lecture Series
Dr. Nouna Bakhiet BETSI Director
Dr. Lukas Buehler, Presenter 1st day of school
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Swiss pre-history

• Archeology shows that Stone Age hunters have been
  living in Switzerland already before the last Ice
  Age (approximately 350'000 B.C.).
• The majority of Switzerland's "native population
  settled during the Germanic Migration of Nations
  that set an end to the Roman Empire in Western
  Europe at about 400 A.D.

• Switzerland's official latin name "Confoederatio
  Helvetica" goes back to a Celtic tribe called the
  Helvetians They belonged to a family of nations
  that has been designated as Indo-Europeans
  because of evidently common roots in their
  languages that distinguish them from Asian,
  African or Semite (Arab, Hebrew) languages. Among
  the Indo-Europeans we find the Greeks, the
  Romans, Germanic and Slawonian tribes but as well
  parts of the Persian and Indian population. It
  has been assumed that the Indo-European tribes
  all came from the prairies of Southern Russia.

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Switzerland has written historic records from he
celtic Helvetians who spoke a celtic language and
the Rhetians who where not Romans but have
adopted the Roman language (Latin) before they
left any written traces. While the Rhetians,
living in the alpine valleys of southeastern
Switzerland, were able to preserve their language
(Rumantsch) and culture to our days, the original
celtic population has left almost no traces in
Switzerland except from a few geographical names.
http//www.all-about-switzerland.info/
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National Geographics Genographics project
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Genetic markers on the Y chromosome
Markers used on Y chromosome are Short tandem
repeats or STRs, which are usually located
between genes and have no known physiological
effect
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Number of repetitions within marker region
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http//www.bio.davidson.edu/courses/genomics/metho
d/microsatellite.html
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My genetic journey The Y chromosome
M168 My Earliest Ancestor
50,000 years
ago M89 Moving Through the Middle East
45,000 years ago M9
The Eurasian Clan Spreads Wide and Far
40,000 years ago M45 The Journey
Through Central Asia
35,000 years ago M207 Leaving Central Asia

30,000 years ago M173 Colonizing Europe The
First Modern Europeans 30,000 years ago M343
Direct Descendants of Cro-Magnon
30,000 years ago
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My genetic journey as seen by the Y chromosome
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Mitochondrial tree
R Cambridge reference sequence
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Genetic markers on the mitochondrial chromosome
(mtDNA)
Hyper Variable Region-1 non-coding sequence of
440 nucleotides contains single nucleotide
polymorphisms (SNPs)
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Y chromosome
mt DNA
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