• H15

  Haplogroup H15 is a branch on the maternal tree of human kind. Its age is between 6,000 and 11,400 years (Behar et al., 2012b).

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News

• Reading – 30 Covert Emotional Manipulation Tactics

  Today, I listened to 30 Covert Emotional Manipulation Tactics: How Manipulators Take Control in Personal Relationships by Adelyn Birch. It was a short but intense listen of under two hours. It took more than two hours for me to get through it, because I had to pause to take notes.

   

• YFull Launches New mtDNA Tree

  As many of you know, Phylotree has not been updated in several years. While I support Phylotree and Dr. Van Oven’s efforts, he has not answered emails in some time either. This is so for both many of you and for myself.

   

Featured Pages

• Encyclopedia of Y-DNA Origins

  The Encyclopedia of Y-DNA Origins is a guide to what is known about each Y-DNA branch. Today, much of what we know is raw material from personal DNA testing, Geno 2.0 results, research samples, and published papers. This is built around the structure of the Y-DNA Haplotree at FTDNA. The encyclopedia brings the data from those sources together in a format that allows new knowledge of our maternal origins to emerge.

  
   

• Affiliate and Business Relationship Disclosures

  Aside from authoring this blog, Rebekah A. Canada has both business and affiliate relationships with some of the companies to whom she links.

  
   

• Journal Articles

  Genetic genealogy draws on peer reviewed journal articles from history, genealogy, forensic genetics, medical genetics, population genetics, and both archaeology and anthropology. Search this archive by keyword.

  
   

Journal Articles

• Goth migration induced changes in the matrilineal genetic structure of the central-east European population

  Here, we present an analysis of mitochondrial DNA isolated from 27 individuals (collectively called the Mas-VBIA group) excavated from an Iron Age cemetery (dated to the 2nd-4th century A.D.) attributed to Goths and located near Masłomęcz, eastern Poland.

   

• Ancient genomes indicate population replacement in Early Neolithic Britain

  Genome-wide ancient DNA studies indicate predominantly Aegean ancestry for continental Neolithic farmers, but also variable admixture with local Mesolithic hunter-gatherers. Neolithic cultures first appear in Britain circa 4000 BC, a millennium after they appeared in adjacent areas of continental Europe.

   

• Genetic history of Bashkirian Mari and Southern Mansi ethnic groups in the Ural region

  Hungarians possess a significant frequency of haplogroup R1a-Z280 and a low frequency of haplogroup N-Tat, which is common among other Uralic-speaking populations. Based on this evidence, we further worked to define the links between the linguistically related Hungarian, Mansi and Bashkirian Mari populations.

   

• Phylogeography of Y-Chromosome Haplogroup I Reveals Distinct Domains of Prehistoric Gene Flow in Europe

  To investigate which aspects of contemporary human Y-chromosome variation in Europe are characteristic of primary colonization, late-glacial expansions from refuge areas, Neolithic dispersals, or more recent events of gene flow, we have analyzed, in detail, haplogroup I (Hg I)…

   

• Population histories of the United States revealed through fine-scale migration and haplotype analysis

  Here, we assemble a comprehensive view of recent population history by studying the ancestry and population structure of over 32,000 individuals in the US using genetic, ancestral birth origin, and geographic data.