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From: "William Hurst" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] East Anglia mtDNA haplogroup diversity
Date: Sat, 02 Dec 2006 15:48:01 -0500
In-Reply-To: <002301c7164d$f884bcd0$6500a8c0@dell>


Hi David,

Your basic question - where did they come from? - is not easy to answer. I
can discuss the two K examples. The project member has one perfect match on
MitoSearch, with an Irish ancestor. There are several close matches in the K
Project; one has been designated a K1b2 by a full-sequence test. The key
mutation combination is 146C and 195C in HVR2. European orgins for the close
ones are Finland, Sweden and Scotland. The one from the Castle Mall site,
with very limited results, has the 16293G mutation. Four in the K Project
have that. I can guess that one is a K1a and another one is a K2a. Not much
help; the mutation does seem to define anything.

My main concern is whether these and other K's went from Scandinavia to the
British Isles or the other way.

Please suggest that your living K join the K project where he will have some
distant relatives.

Bill Hurst

>Hello,
>
>I've started considering how the various mtDNA (maternal) haplogroups
>represented in the East Anglia Geographic DNA Project may have arrived
>there. East Anglia is the southeast corner of England that includes
>Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, southeast Lincolnshire and northern
>Essex.
>I didn't really know what to expect with the mtDNA profiles going into the
>Project but I can say I did not expect the diversity we have thus far.
>
>I would really appreciate hearing your opinion on this topic. Is this a
>reflection of the age of this groups in the region or the influx of peoples
>over the millenia? Did the Romans, Angles, Saxons, Danes, Normans, etc.
>bring their women with them? Or, are the mtDNA signatures we see today in
>East Anglia passed down from native Briton women, i.e. Iceni?
>
>Amongst the 28 mtDNA profiles in the Project to date seven haplogroups are
>represented:
>
>(number)Hg[subclades]
>
>(10)H[includes (1) H1* and (1) H5a1]
>(7)T[includes (4) T1 and (3) T2]
>(3)J[includes (1) J1a]
>(2)K
>(2)W
>(2)X
>(1)I
>(1)U[U*]
>
>Note, 17 of the mtDNA haplogroups are inferred from partial HVR1 profiles
>taken from remains found in a Late Saxon period burial site at Castle Mall,
>Norwich, NFK.
>
>The mtDNA profiles can be seen here:
>
>http://www.geocities.com/thurlowons/eagdna/tables/mt_profiles.html
>
>You can see an interactive map of the Project participant mtDNA profile
>distribution here:
>
>http://www.geocities.com/thurlowons/eagdna/maps/map_mtDNA.html
>
>
>David Weston
>Project Administrator
>East Anglia Geographic DNA Project
>http://www.geocities.com/thurlowons/eagdna/
>
>
>
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