Are you related to Genghis Khan? Odds are higher than you might think.

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I was viewing Ancients Behaving Badly and I noticed Genghis Khan behaved like a lion. A lion will kill the young of the area it intends to claim and supplant them with its own. Some reports have Khan murdering upwards of 32,000,000 folks and the number of offspring and the numbers have just grown astronomically.

"Then a study in 2003 suggested that up to 16 million people worldwide — and 8 per cent of Asian men — were descended from Genghis Khan, and Professor Sykes decided to trawl through his database of approximately 25,000 male clients for a match.

The link is revealed by the Y chromosome, a packet of DNA that determines male sex, which is passed down from father to son. Men who share a Y chromosome are invariably descended from the same man at some point in the past, and the accumulation of mutations can be used to date the common ancestor. Women do not have a Y chromosome, so they cannot be tested in the same way, although millions are likely also to be descended from the warlord.

The 2003 study found that large numbers of Asian men from the regions that once made up the Mongol empire shared a single Y chromosome, and that this originated in a man who lived in the early 13th century.

Genghis Khan lived from about 1162 to 1227 and fathered hundreds or even thousands of children as his armies swept across the continent. This makes him by far the most probable source of the common chromosome. "

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article669552.ece