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From: "Dora Smith" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] mtDNA H2a phylogeny
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2007 21:31:06 -0500
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Kathy, I have several questions.

First of all, from where are you getting the idea that a branch of H2a2
identifies a tribe of GAels, or that it travelled from Gaul to Galacia to
Turkey?

Second, does the Genographic Project test 3388? I thought they tested HVR1,
and nothing else.

Third, have more than three people who have this mutation ever been found?

Yours,
Dora Smith
Austin, TX


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Subject: Re: [DNA] mtDNA H2a phylogeny


> >C3388A definitely appears as a branch in H2.
>
> Those of us in the 3388A H2a2 group have the following
> 750A, 1438A, 4769A, 8860G, and 15326G in what Ann calls
> the famous five.
>
> Those matching the revised CRS should have all "A"s in
> the famous five.
>
> I would hope to find many intermediate groups with
> branches along the phylogenetic tree between these two
> sub-groups of H2a2. The tree at Mitomap shows the branching
> 3388A site I am talking about just above the rCRS.
>
> The reason that the 3388A marker would be a great polymorphism
> for anthropologists and archaeologists to follow around Europe is
> that it represents a transversion instead of a transition so there
> is less likelihood of homoplasy. Therefore it could be useful as a
> unique marker, one that is likely to be confined to a specific tribe.
>
> 3388A can be extrapolated to be associated with a definite cluster
> of Scottish Gaels and also may be in the archaeological remains
> of "St. Luke" or Padua Body if I could get the Catholic and/or
> Orthodox Church to test for it. So if it can be traced from Gaul to
> Galacia in Turkey and from Continental Europe to Scotland,
> then it would tell us much about the migration patterns and
> the pre-history of the so-called Celts. Since the Genographic
> Project probably has the largest collection of people with
> this marker, I should think they would be the ones to be
> looking for the geographical associations. Or, maybe I'll
> become a Spencer Wells in my next life ;-)
>
> Kathy J.
>
>
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