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Subject: Re: [ROOTS-L] The Six Black Presidents
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 02:26:00 EST

Hi, John-

I was waiting for this Y DNA Jefferson information to come up in this
thread. <g> When this was discovered it was thought to be rather odd/rare that
Jefferson's male kin were K2. Since the information you posted, further research
was done by the people in England connected to the TV show "Who Do You Think
You Are?" and they located a few other men in Scotland with the surname
Jefferson who also are in the K2 haplogroup. The speculation is that this
represents an early migration into Scotland of an ancestor of this haplogroup.

Joan


In a message dated 12/15/2008 1:36:18 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
writes:

According to Spencer Wells of the National Geographic Genographic
Project, based on DNA testing of living descendants of Thomas
Jefferson's paternal line:

"SNP testing revealed that Jefferson's Y is positive for M70, which
places him in haplogroup K2. K2 is rare in northern Europe but quite
common in the Middle East and northeast Africa, where it reaches
frequencies of 10% ..."

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