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Baldwin Lecture: The Meaning of Race in the Post-Genome Society
If you're not as interested in the historical background, you can scroll about halfway down to the paragraph beginning, "To turn now to the current era..."
Important Dalriadic Ancestral Genetic Signature Identified
"The Scots modal has often been referred to as the signature of Colla Uais (along with his brothers they were known as the three Collas) who was king in the kingdom of Airgialla, which was located in Ireland in the 4th century. Not every one agrees with this connection. John McEwan wrote to me the following... ...The Scots Modal therefore most likely did not derive from Cola Uais, but there is a lot of evidence from many clans that have this DNA signature that many of the early rulers of Scotland may have come from this genetic lineage."
Discussing the limits of FTDNA's TiP calculator and other approaches to determining genetic distance.