Editing History of Greenland (section)

===Genetic legacy===
Genetic research has found that [[Inuit]] men in Western Greenland carry 40-60% Northwestern European Y-DNA haplogroups. This is consistent with admixture from the earlier [[Norsemen|Norse]] settlers of Greenland (1000-1200 AD), as well as more recent colonisation of Greenland by modern Scandinavians in the 18th century.<ref name="Olofsson2015">{{cite journal |last1=Olofsson |first1=Jill Katharina |last2=Pereira |first2=Vania |last3=Børsting |first3=Claus |last4=Morling |first4=Niels |title=Peopling of the North Circumpolar Region – Insights from Y Chromosome STR and SNP Typing of Greenlanders |journal=PLOS ONE |date=30 January 2015 |volume=10 |issue=1 |pages=e0116573 |doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0116573 |pmid=25635810 |pmc=4312058 |issn=1932-6203 |quote= "Approximately 40% of the Y-HGs in the male Greenlandic population were found to be of European origin. Only considering the European Y-HGs (I-M170, R1a-M513 and R1b-M232) in Greenland, the relative frequencies of these Y-HGs in the Greenlanders resembled those observed in the male Danish population examined in this study and other male Scandinavian [24–26] and Icelandic populations [27]." "In strong contrast to the results of this study and previous studies [9,13], typing of the mtDNA in the Greenlandic population shows an almost complete fixation of Inuit maternal lineages [5]. The European gene flow detected in Greenlanders can therefore primarily be attributed to males." |doi-access=free|bibcode=2015PLoSO..1016573O }}</ref> According to several studies, there is no evidence of a European female contribution to the [[mitochondrial]] lineages of modern [[Greenlandic Inuit]] people; their maternal lineages are nearly completely shared with other Inuit populations. This implies that European admixture in Greenlandic people derives primarily from European male ancestors.<ref name="Olofsson2015" />