A Phoenician Genetic Variant Written in the Phoenician Alphabet (1 of 2) (IMAGE)

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A Phoenician Genetic Variant Written in the Phoenician Alphabet (1 of 2)

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Most Y chromosomes have a T at a particular position along the chromosome (known as 13,479,028 or M172), but some have a G at this position. Lineages spread by the Phoenicians are enriched for the G. The Phoenicians invented the alphabet, and if they had written down their genetic variant, this is how it would have looked.

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Chris Tyler-Smith

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