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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Jan 20.
Published in final edited form as: Mol Biol Evol. 2007 Nov 20;25(2):301–309. doi: 10.1093/molbev/msm255

Table 1. Admixture proportions in British Isles populations.

Admixed population na Proportion
Scandinavian ancestry
± standard deviation
Proportion British
ancestry ± standard
deviation
Llangefni 80 0.10 ± 0.02 0.90 ± 0.02
Mid-Cheshire 46 0.21 ± 0.03 0.79 ± 0.03
Isle of Man 62 0.39 ± 0.04 0.61 ± 0.04
Penrith 90 0.37 ± 0.03 0.63 ± 0.03
Orkney 121 0.50 ± 0.03 0.50 ± 0.03
Shetland 63 0.41 ± 0.04 0.59 ± 0.04

Wirral ‘modern’ 100 0.38 ± 0.03 0.62 ± 0.03
Wirral ‘medieval’ 37 0.47 ± 0.05 0.53 ± 0.05
Wirral ‘medieval’ rarer surnames 26 0.51 ± 0.06 0.49 ± 0.06

West Lancsb ‘modern’ 49 0.38 ± 0.04 0.62 ± 0.04
West Lancsb ‘medieval’ 40 0.51 ± 0.04 0.49 ± 0.04
West Lancsb ‘medieval’ rarer 30 0.53 ± 0.05 0.47 ± 0.05
surnames
a

sample size

b

Lancashire.