At the Seventh International Family Tree DNA Conference for Group Administrators, Peter Biggins presented a talk coauthored with Thomas Roderick on “DNA of the Three Collas.”
Peter Biggins
SOURCE: Peter Biggins (Houston, Harris County, Texas); photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 06 November 2011.
The Clan Colla 425 Null Project was launched on 22 June 2009.
The three Collas were three brothers in Ulster: Colla Uais, Colla da Crioch, and Colla Menn . The descendants of Colla Uais moved to the Scottish Highlands.
Descendants of the Collas are identified at three single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs): L21+, DF21+, and DNS425 null. The null DNA425 occurred in the early part of the first millennium.
There are many surnames in Clan Colla, including Carroll, Hughes, MacDougall, McDonald, McGuire, McKenna, McMahon . See O’Hart, John. 1892. Irish pedigrees; or, The origin and stem of the Irish nation. Dublin: James Duffy and Co., available on Google Books.
There are 259 people in the project . Of the new FTDNA Y-DNA markers (68-111), members of Clan Colla have a value of 9 for marker DNS 505.
Copyright © 2011 by Stephen J. Danko
