VMax
Junior Member
- Messages
- 24
- Reaction score
- 3
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- 3
- Location
- California
- Ethnic group
- American (From the British Isles & Germany)
- Y-DNA haplogroup
- I-Z138*
- mtDNA haplogroup
- H6a1b3a
In using this free tool I noticed that I had 5cM match for three references:
Loschbour, LUX, 8ky, (two segments larger than 5 cM); ESP16 Esperstedt, GER, 2,500 BC; and 04 Oakington, Cambs., ENG, 400-545 AD.
And one with 6cM - Bichon, SWI, 13,700 BP.
What is going on here? Are not the distances too far for segments this large?
In reading Flex's blog he seems confused as well (links below). "I am not sure what to make of these matches who match with a 8000 years old ancient DNA. Could the sample be contaminated? Is the sample really ancient? I don't know for sure. These matches raises lot of questions than answers. Let me know what you think."
More information on ancient DNA is at
https://web.archive.org/web/20200304063547/http://www.y-str.org/p/ancient-dna.html.
Any answers and how to interpret this?
Loschbour, LUX, 8ky, (two segments larger than 5 cM); ESP16 Esperstedt, GER, 2,500 BC; and 04 Oakington, Cambs., ENG, 400-545 AD.
And one with 6cM - Bichon, SWI, 13,700 BP.
What is going on here? Are not the distances too far for segments this large?
In reading Flex's blog he seems confused as well (links below). "I am not sure what to make of these matches who match with a 8000 years old ancient DNA. Could the sample be contaminated? Is the sample really ancient? I don't know for sure. These matches raises lot of questions than answers. Let me know what you think."
More information on ancient DNA is at
https://web.archive.org/web/20200304063547/http://www.y-str.org/p/ancient-dna.html.
Any answers and how to interpret this?