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From: ellen Levy <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Ethnic Migrations Across Europe
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 09:47:04 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <001b01c5bd36$806b0c70$71509045@Ken1>


Ken & List:

The most common Ashkenazi R1a motif is 16, 25, 10,
with the second most common motif being 15, 25, 10.

Ellen Coffman

--- Ken Nordtvedt <> wrote:

> David Z,
>
> The most Polish R1a seems to be the motif 17,25,10
> at DYS19,390,391 with
> 16,25,10 a close second.
>
> The most Russian R1a seems to be the motif 16,25,11
> at these markers
>
> The most South Slav or Balkan R1a seems to be the
> motif 16,24,11 at these
> markers
>
> Eastern Germany and NW Poland tend to have more
> percentage of DYS19 = 15 R1a
> than these other areas (closer to Scandinavian R1a).
>
> But don't overdo your trust in these short modal
> differences. There is lots
> of mixing, especialy in the boundary zones. In my
> first attempt to find
> other markers in the extended haplotypes of Sorenson
> which would further
> isolate the various Slav R1a types from each other,
> I failed.
>
> Interestingly, Ukraine (Kiev) looks more like a
> compromise between Russian
> and South Slav than it does Polish. Is this where
> the Balkan Slavs came
> from?
>
> I don't have Vilnius included in my tabulation
> sheet. But you can find that
> information at YHRD website in a couple of ways.
>
> Ken
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Zincavage" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Sunday, September 18, 2005 11:42 PM
> Subject: Re: [DNA] Ethnic Migrations Across Europe
>
>
> > I'd be very interested in the definitions of the
> Polish and Russian
> > motifs.
> > I'm Lithuanian myself.
> >
> > David Zincavage
> >
>
>
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