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Figure 3 Residences of the
Flemish DNA Project members.

earliest

known

ancestors

of

Flanders-

In addition to the influence on Britain, Flemish emigration in the 19th and early 20th
centuries has resulted in over one million people of Flemish descent currently living in
the U.S. (Denys, 1984; Baye, 1987). These Flemish Americans clearly have Flemish
ancestors (van Molle L., Pansaerts C, 1996). In sum, the maps and A. Fleming’s work
show that in the U.S., England, Scotland, and Ireland there may be a lot of people who
have ancestors who originally came from Flanders.
The second set of haplotypes is based on 112 DNA samples extracted from blood
samples taken at the university hospital of the Catholic University
of Leuven (KUL). According to Professor Ronny DeCorte, these blood samples were
mostly taken from people who were from Leuven. Each of these 112 haplotypes
contains 12 markers.
The modal values of the 12 markers for these 112 haplotypes correspond exactly with
the modal values found in the 45 records collected via the FFDNA project. The fact
that the modal values correspond so closely provides evidence that the data collected
via the FFDNA project indeed represents DNA from people with Flemish roots.
The third data set was derived from a genetic study of 113 unrelated Flemish males,
who were typed for 12 Y-STRs. This dataset was obtained from G. Mertens and
appeared in the Fall 2007 issue of this journal. The main result of that study showed
that in this sample of 113 Flemings, there were 56.6% belonging to Haplogroup R1b,
19.5% belonging to Haplogroup I1 (I-M253), 8% to Haplogroup I2b2 (I-M223), 4.4% to
Haplogroup E1b1b1 (