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Subject: Re: [DNA] Haplogroup J2 origins
Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 17:12:33 -0400
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> ---- Jackson Montgomery-Devoni <> wrote:
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> > It says that haplogroup J2 originated in the Northern Portion of the Fertile
> > Crescent. Which countries today would this correspond to? Turkey, Syria?
> > Iraq? Iran? I have also read that it originated in northwestern Iran? Does
> > anyone really know where specifically J2-M172 originated?
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> > Jackson
> > Y-DNA J2a1*
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> The Fertile Crescent included what are now modern Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, and Israel, but it would have also included smaller portions of western Iran and southernTurkey.
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> Here is a pretty decent map showing the location of the Fertile Crescent: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Fertile_Crescent_map.png
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> Rich
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I forgot to mention Egypt, but I had the northern portion of the FC in mind anyway.
Rich
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