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Subject: [DNA] (no subject)
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 18:26:33 EST


I'm quoting this message posted on another newsgroup with the permission of
the author. The article is highly technical, and I'm still trying to digest
it myself, but it explains a little bit about how Oxford Ancestors can assign
your mtDNA sequence data to a "haplogroup." A haplogroup is a cluster of
mtDNA sequences which appear to come from a common origin. Haplogroups are
labelled with letters of the alphabet H, J, X etc., and Oxford Ancestors
creates names such as Helena, Jasmine, Xenia, etc. with little vignettes for
these groups.

Subj: RE: [query: Anyone else have mtDNA haplotype H with 3 C mutations
on 189, 356, 362]
Date: 1/16/2001 9:24:52 AM Pacific Standard Time

From: (Andy Carvin)
Reply-to: (DNA Testing, Ask the Experts)
To: (DNA Testing, Ask the Experts)

There's a study online by Richards and Macaulay
(http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~macaulay/papers/richards_2000.pdf), in which the
research team compared mtDNA from several thousand subjects around the world
in order to map out potential pre-historic migration patterns from the Near
East into Europe.

Macaulay's website has data tables divided by haplotypes
(http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~macaulay/founder2000/index.html) that identifies
the ethnicity of people in the study with particular mtDNA mutations.
According to this data, the H-haplotype mutation of 189, 356 and 362,
appeared in the following study participants:

1 individual from SE Europe (Bulgaria, according to an email I got from
Macaulay)

1 individal from Alpine Europe

1 individual from the western Mediterranean

1 individual from Northwest Europe


I myself had a very interesting result according when looking at this study.
I carry the 126 and 362 mutation, a pre-HV haplotype. To my surprise, this
mutation appeared in the following people:

Nubian (southern Egypt/Northern Sudan): 5 individuals
Bedouin Arab: 1
Iraqi: 1
Palestinian: 1
Greek: 1
Bulgarian: 1
Anywhere else in Europe: 0

Macaulay says that he considers this mutation to be African in origin, so
now I'm diving into my ancient history to see exactly what periods of time
had Nubians and Jews coming into regular contact with each other. The exodus
period, Israelite POWs sent to the Nubian border by one of the Ptolemy
Pharaohs, and the Nubian commercial port of Adulis (which had numerous
Jewish merchant residents), are all at the top of my list.

Fascinating stuff... -ac


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