WendyKeys
Junior Member
Hello everyone. I have just registered with this site having received my mtDNA results from Family Tree DNA. I am just beginning my journey and hope to learn lots about my haplogroup - U5b1c2b.
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~U5b (or U5b1) is specific to Saami (not U5a), correct? And that is also how they are connected to Berbers. I am having a mess with my DNA testing because I am only Scandinavian ancestry, with northern Swedes (who looked Saami), and I'm coming up with anything from bits of North Africa to Lithuania, Ukraine, and Komi Russia all over my admixtures. No. Uff. U5a is more common elsewhere in Scandinavia, like this map. This is U5a?
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There are also some U5a examples of Saami mtDNA from Saami Project: myDNA public results (though without personal names), these are results of Saami mtDNA Haplogroups and subclades, and some of them (on pages 4-5 ), do have U5a, so it is not unheard of. familytreedna.com/public/Saami?iframe=mtresults
Were you wondering if you have some Saami ancestry, although you are U5a? It is certainly still possible. Is your family aware of your family tree, and if so is there any mention of this? -- Or is your interest purely academic? Either way, I hope these links will help you in your research.
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