Results
The test results that we now have include the following:
Group E: Haplogroup E, including O'Keane of Connemara & Co Mayo.
Group G: Haplogroup G. With just one member thus far, we await future developments.
Group I1: Haplotype I1 indicating Norse Viking settlement in Ireland & the Isle of Man.
Group I2a: Haplogroup I2a, a Celtic branch of haplogroup I which includes a Cain/Keane/Quinn group from Kilkee, Co Clare;
Group I2b: Haplogroup I2b, most numerous in Sweden and indicating Viking or Germanic origins when found in Ireland.
Group J: Haplogroup J, generally associated with Roman settlement in the British Isles and/or Jewish origins.
Group R1a: Haplogroup R1a indicating Norse (Viking) descent, principally from the Scottish Isles, Isle of Man and Ulster.
Group R1b-L21: O'Cathain of Cenel Sedna, east Co Galway, bearing names Cain, Kane & Keane. Celtic DNA with P312 and L21;
Group R1b-L21 Irish Type 3: A Kane/Cain lineage from southwest Co Clare. Celtic DNA Irish Type III with P312 and L21;
Group R1b-L21 Kilrush: O'Cathain of the Shannon estuary, Co. Clare & Co.Kerry. This group possibly descend from the O'Cahane coarbs of St Senan who held Iniscatha (Scattery Isle) and one quarter of Kilrush. This group includes members named Cain, Kane & Keane. Celtic DNA with P312 and L21;
Group R1b-L21 MacEain: McCains of Ulster & Scotland, bearing Celtic SNPs P312 and L21;
Group R1b-L21 Scots Type: Members with haplotype/genotype resembling the Scots Modal or Colla Uais (an Irish King) Modal;
Group R1b-L21 South Irish Type: A Cain/Kane group from the province of Munster, Ireland bearing the South Irish Modal haplotype and SNP markers P312 and L21.
Group R1b-M222 North West Irish Type: O'Cathain of Ciannachta Glinne-geimhein, Co. Derry, a branch of the Northern Ui Niall, descended from King Niall Noigallach. (See "Matching Niall of the Nine Hostages" on the FTDNA home page). This large group, positive for markers P312 and L21, is readily distinguished from other Cain/Kane/Keanes by marker M222+);
Group R1b-M269: Celts with SNP marker P312, but not belonging to any of the groups identified below;
Group R1b-M269: Keanes from the Galway & Roscommon border.
Group R1b-P312 Cain: An unidentified Cain group with Celtic P312+ DNA;
Group R1b-U106 "Frisians": nominally "Frisian" (Anglo-Saxon, Norman, Viking) people negative for P312, instead bearing U106.
Group R1b-U152 Celts : La Tene Celts, principally from Ireland and Britain with deep ancestral origins in the European Alps, bearing SNP markers P312 and U152.
Unassigned Members:
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