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From: "Annie, The WritingTeacher" <>
Subject: [DNA] Re: GENEALOGY-DNA-D Digest V03 #1
Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2003 18:01:00 -0800


Relations of mtDNA between Britain and the Middle East question answered:

I found in Sykes' book and also in articles on back migration before 15,000
years ago from Europe to the Middle East, that J mtDNA arose in Syria at the
end of the last Ice Age and migrated to Britain by two different routes. The
first route focused on particular ceramic ware and clines of genes that
followed a route through Syria and the rest of the Levant across the
Bosphorus into Greece/Anatolia and along the Adriatic as well as up the
Danube throughout Romania, Hungary, Moldova, and the Ukraine and from there
into Central and Northern Europe, and then across Western Europe into
Britain. The second route of J mtDNA from Syria followed the coastal
Mediterranean into Spain and then into Ireland and Britain about 7,000-9000
years ago, finally reaching Scandinavia about 3,000 years ago. The migration
of J mtDNA represented 20% to 26% of the European population.

Other articles I read on migration from the Middle East to N. Europe
included studies of persons in North Italy who had a high number of
centenarians of J mtDNA, which originally came from Syria at the beginning
of agriculture, about 9,000 years ago, reaching different European countries
at different times and comprising up to 26% of the population of Europe
today.

Also coming with J were some T, some K, and some H with sequences found more
frequently in Anatolia and the Middle East, but H also had come into Europe
from the Middle East 21,000 years ago, settling in France and Spain, and K
about 13,000 years ago in N. Italy, and T, in the British isles. T,J, and
some K also is found today in the Middle East in large numbers. But H
disappeared from the Arabian peninsula very early in paleolithic times, but
is found all over Anatolia and N. Levant, Armenia, and Caucasus as well as
N. Europe and Spain, including the Basques.

I also read that RH+ blood types, especially B and AB came from Syria to
Europe in neolithic times, and H haplogroup mtDNA with 0 negative RH blood
was Paleolithic and represents the proto-European type as RH positive AB
blood type represents the standard Middle Eastern type and comprises 25% of
Egyptian blood types and 13% of Tatar blood types. It originated at the foot
of the Himalayas around the end of the last Ice Age and moved West. O
negative blood is the oldest in Europe and is not found frequently in Asia.

Studies include articles on Founder types of European DNA in the Middle
East, etc....Most other studies are in the book Archaeogenetics.

England has about 20 percent of J mtDNA originating in the Levant/Syria
during the neolithic times for migration there, but H, K, T, and JT also
have a Middle Eastern, but earlier, origin, about 28,000 years in
Anatolia/Levant.

Anne Hart
author,
How to Interpret Your DNA Test Results for Family History & Ancestry
http://www.iuniverse.com/bookstore/book_detail.asp?isbn=0%2D595%2D26334%2D8

http://dnanovels.tripod.com/novels.html/





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