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National Geographic has an interesting genetic study that analyzes DNA so as to place individuals within haplogroups which, as best I understand the term, means the broad African group from which each individual lineage stems. There are several haplogroups which, when identified, will show the broad contours of your family travels.
A DNA test is required, which is furnished by NG. A simple cheek swab which is mailed in, then analyzed by NG's scientists.
www3.nationalgeographic.com
Check it out. It was fun finding out that my lineage spent time in Arabia and in the Indus Valley after leaving East Africa and that we are represented in only a very small percentage of the population.
C2@damnI'malmostextinct.com
The test's results take some time to get back, but otherwise an anjoyable experience.
My lineage as established on the Y chromosone, i.e,. male side only:
M201—Founder of Haplogroup GThe first guy to have the M201 mutation which distinguishes our Haplogroup G is thought to have lived about 30 thousand years ago along the eastern edge of the Middle East, perhaps as far east as the Himalayan foothills inPakistan or India. He has had relatively few descendants. Some of them went east on into Southeast Asia, south China and the Pacific Islands, but most moved back into the Middle East .Then about 10 thousand years ago things began to change for the members of the four Haplogroups G-J.Prior to this time all humans were hunter-gatherers. The people of what was known as the “FertileCresent ” developed agriculture and the world would never be the same again. Population could expand rapidly and farmers began moving out of theMiddle East, through the islands and along the shores of the Mediterranean, through Turkey into the Balkans and the Caucasus Mountains.
It was once thought that the advancing farmers must have displaced or eliminated the hunter-gatherers of Europe. However the DNA studies have shown that the spread of agriculture did involve the movement of some people into Europe who had not been there before, but largely the spread of farming was through the adoption of the practice by the existing Europeans. An hypothesis which is growing stronger recently is that these same people at the same time may have introduced the Indo-European language into northIndia, the mid-East and Europe . Indo-European is the parent language for Greek, Latin, Sanskrit, Germanic and hence of most of the other languages of the mid-east, northIndia and Europe.
To be more specific about where Gs are to be found today: those that went east have very small numbers of living male-line descendant members inChina, Indonesia, Taiwan, the Philippines, and the PolynesianIslands of the Pacific.Those that went north have small numbers of living male-line descendant G-folk in Syria (Arab), Russia (Adygeans), Uzbekistan (Tartars and Karakalpaks), Mongolia, and western ChinaUygurs).Those that went west and north live today in Italy, Sicily, Hungary, Austria, Germany, France, Norway and Sweden.In the Republic of Georgia (CaucasusMountains south of Russia, north of Turkey ) members of G make up as much as 30% of the population.There are 14% on the island of Sardinia, 10% in north central Italy, 8% in northern Spain, almost 7% in Turkey, and lesser percentages in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, the Ukraine, Lebanon, Greece, Hungary, Albania, Croatia, and Ethiopia.G is still represented in theMiddle East--some of these are Arab, some are Jews, many are neither. Across northwestern Europe, G haplotypes occur at a low frequency, 1-3%.
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