The lineage was seen at that higher frequency only in the Christian populations in Lebanon, even though among the Muslims it was not altogether absent. The study matched the western European Y-chromosome lineage against thousands of people in France, Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom. On the other hand, in the Lebanese Muslim population a similar pattern, this time associated with genetic markers from Arabia, was also observed in higher preferential frequencies, although they too were not altogether absent in the Christian population. We found that a lineage that is very common in the Arabian Peninsula — Hg J*— is found in slightly higher frequencies preferentially in the Muslim population.