To which mtDNA haplogroup do you belong?

[Pallantides]

Since there already is a thread about Y-DNA haplogroups, I thought we needed a thread about mtDNA as well.



I belong to mtDNA haplogroup N1a(subclade N1a1)
Possible date and place of origin: 12,000 - 32,000 years ago, somewhere in South-West Asia.



N1a distribution

Komi-Permyaks 9.5%
Havyaka Brahmin 8.3%
Bashkirs 3.6%
Yemen 3.6%(other studies estimate 5.2% and 6.9%)
Saudi estimated from 2.4% to 4%
Ethiopia 2.2%
Chuvash 1.8%
Altaians 1.2%
Qatar 1.1%
Portugal 0.37%
Scotland 0.11%
Khanty 0.9%
Egypt 0.8%
Croatia mainland 0.7%, also 9.24% on the island of Cres and 1.9% in the island of Brač
Tatars 0.4%
Iran 0.3%( 8.3% in the north eastern steppe zone of Iran according to one study.)
Buryats 0.2%
Turkey 0.2%
European total is estimated at about 0.2%

Historical

Seven of 42 skeletons from Linear Pottery Culture sites were found to be members of the N1a haplogroup . N1a was also identified in remains from a 6200 year-old megalithic long mound near Prissé-la-Charrière, France. A 2500 year old fossil of a Scytho-Siberian in the Altai Republic, easternmost representative of the Scythians, was found to be a member of N1a1. A study of a 10th and 11th century Hungarians found that N1a1a1 was present in high-status individuals but absent from commoners. One of thirteen skeletons analyzed from a medieval cemetery dated 1250-1450 AD in Denmark was found to be a member of subclade N1a1a.

[Phier]

While the mtDNA (and for that matter Y dna) are interesting and a cool bit of personal history, it can be rather misleading. All it takes is that one relative for these genes to travel down the line, even though the rest of your genes may have swamped out every characteristic from the people your Y or mt dna came from.

This is of course why it possible to study migrations, but it doesn't say a lot about YOU personally.

[Pallantides]

While the mtDNA (and for that matter Y dna) are interesting and a cool bit of personal history, it can be rather misleading. All it takes is that one relative for these genes to travel down the line, even though the rest of your genes may have swamped out every characteristic from the people your Y or mt dna came from.

This is of course why it possible to study migrations, but it doesn't say a lot about YOU personally.

Yes I agree, my autsomal DNA tells a lot more about me (my ancestry is firmly planted in the Northern parts of Europe)



A genetic map of West Eurasians from the Dodecad Ancestry Project

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My location:

[thelionheart]

So how did you find out these results ?

[Pallantides]

So how did you find out these results ?

I tested myself with the company 23andMe(Y-DNA, mtDNA and autsomal DNA), after that I sent my raw data wich I got from 23andME and sent it to the genome blog projects like the 'Dodecad Ancestry Project' and the 'Eurogenes Biographic ancestry project' for further analysis and population studies.

[Tacitursa]

I havent done any tests but i know that a good 80% or so of the populations dna in UK comes from iberian celts some 20,000 years ago when they crossed the English channel during the ice age.

And as far as im aware my ancestry goes back to the irish and scottish celts. I know quite alot of people in england also have german , viking or french ancestry and im fairly sure i do not so Id say im most likely hplogroup R1b althought i have absolutely no idea what that means

[Pallantides]

And as far as im aware my ancestry goes back to the irish and scottish celts. I know quite alot of people in england also have german , viking or french ancestry and im fairly sure i do not so Id say im most likely hplogroup R1b althought i have absolutely no idea what that means

R1b is the most common haplogroup among Germanic speaking peoples, followed by I1 and R1a.

[Vítor Gaspar]

I havent done any tests but i know that a good 80% or so of the populations dna in UK comes from iberian celts some 20,000 years ago when they crossed the English channel during the ice age.

That's indeed true. Most people feel surprised when they hear that we, especially Northern Spaniards and the Portuguese, and the British have a very similar genetic background on average. Supposedly western Iberians migrated to the British isles bringing their neolithic culture with it: which was common in Portugal, Denmark, Northwestern France, the Basque Country and Catalonia. How's the Lusitanian neolithic culture so similar to that found in Denmark is still not known though, but perhaps the Iberians got to Denmark too - at least that'd make sense when it comes to the chronology of the building of megaliths throughout Europe. The oldest is in Évora, some 100 km from where I live, and is thought to be from 5000 BC. Stonehenge, the apex of the megaliths' construction, is from around 2800 BC.



Of course this was at a very early age so most of these migrations, today, mean nothing compared to the mass movements of people that occurred later. It's just the genetic background.

[Jaketh]

how do you find out?

[clandestino]

I havent done any tests but i know that a good 80% or so of the populations dna in UK comes from iberian celts some 20,000 years ago when they crossed the English channel during the ice age.

There were no Celts 20,000 years ago, there even weren't Indo-European languages.