GENEALOGY-DNA-L Archives

Archiver > GENEALOGY-DNA > 2006-04 > 1146248511


From: "Ken Nordtvedt" <>
Subject: Modals for R1b Varieties
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 12:21:51 -0600


I have added a spreadsheet to my website www.northwestanalysis.net for the extended modal haplotypes of R1b varieties I have identified primarily from SMGF database (Ysearch for DYS464)

There is one small variety, R1b-Ub, which shows an unusual pedigree distribution in my view. It is found in Iberia, British Isles, as well as Germany, Denmark, Sweden --- hence the "Ub" for ubiquitous, not Uzbekistan. It has modal 24,10,19-22 at DYS390,391,YCA, and I believe this root form has been mentioned from time to time on the list, particularly by the Scots and Irish on the list. If anyone has an idea what "peoples" it represents, chime in.

Note: I consider a "variety" as something more than a cluster of genealogical cousins. A variety is the descendant population from a founder with a unique haplotype and who existed thousands of years ago. The modal haplotype is a good candidate for the founder's haplotype. One's "distance" from this modal haplotype, or liklihood to be among the descendants of the founder, should not be determined by democratically adding up steps of difference at all markers. It is much more important to match on most of the key, slow-mutating markers which define the variety.

Some of the extended modal haplotypes for the varieties from more easterly parts of Europe are incomplete; the data is rather lean.

Ken

This thread: