Editing Rheged (section)

==Genetic legacy==
According to the [[University of Oxford]]'s ''People of the British Isles'' project, the original population of Rheged has left a distinct genetic heritage amongst the people of Cumbria. The research compared the [[DNA]] of over 2000 people across the British Isles whose grandparents were all born within {{convert|50|miles}} of each other, and found a number of cases, including Rheged, where genetic clusters of people matched the location of historical kingdoms (other examples included [[Bernicia]] and [[Elmet]]).<ref name="people">{{cite web |url=https://www.peopleofthebritishisles.org/population-genetics |title=People of the British Isles: Population Genetics |author=<!--Not stated--> |website=www.peopleofthebritishisles.org |publisher=University of Oxford |access-date=30 July 2018 |quote="Several of the other genetic clusters show similar locations to the tribal groupings and kingdoms around at the time of the Saxon invasion (from the 5th century), suggesting that these tribes and kingdoms may have maintained a regional identity for many centuries. For example the Cumbrian cluster corresponds well to the kingdom of Rheged, West Yorkshire to the Elmet and Northumbria to the Bernicia. The existence of these largely quite well separated clusters suggests a remarkable stability of the British people over quite long periods of time."}}</ref>