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From: ellen Levy <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Druze
Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 12:31:51 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <c4b.28ff0a21.3555f54a@aol.com>


I'm not so sure that this can't be logically
determined, Ann. It would depend on whether X2a occurs
only in Native Americans. If so, then the answer is
probably that it developed after reaching the New
World, unless one could present a reasonable argument
as to why the X2a lineage for some reason became
extinct in the Old World. Otherwise, it likely
developed in Southwest Asia and migrated to the New
World.

Is this the case? Is X2a restricted to Native
Americans?

Ellen Coffman

--- wrote:

> In a message dated 5/9/2008 11:19:00 AM Pacific
> Daylight Time,
> writes:
>
> > *" Native American X mtDNA falls into subclade
> X2a, with an HVR motif of
> > 200G and 16213A. The X samples in the Druze paper
> didn't have either one of
> > those."
> >
> > *Does this suggest Native American DNA is older or
> younger than the Druze?
>
> Both X2a and X2b would be descendants of X2, but we
> can't tell which
> originated first.
>
> > The X haplogroup FTdna Family group gives the
> Druze as X2b and the Native
> > American/First Peoples (Ojibwa, Nuu-Chah-Nulth,
> Sioux, Na-Dene-Navaho,
> > Yakima) as X2a.
> > Is this still correct in light of the new report?
>
> I see no reason to change that description. We don't
> know where X2a
> originated.
>
> Ann Turner
>
>
>
>
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