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- Ethnic group
- Anglo-American
- Y-DNA haplogroup
- R1b-P312
- mtDNA haplogroup
- K1a (+195C)
Hope y'all can help me. I'm R1b1a2a1a1b (P312), and I'm curious to know what deeper downstream subclades I might belong to. Problem is, I'm too broke to pay FTDNA $40-a-pop for the all the possible SNP tests.
So what I've been doing is using a combination of my own 37-marker results, YSearch (comparing my panel to those of known, tested deep-clade members), a TMRCA calculator, and age estimates of various subclades to try to "predict" which one I might belong to.
How reliable a methodology is this? The only thing I've been able to ascertain with any measure of certainty so far is that I'm not M222. (I'm not U152 either; I paid for that SNP test.) Apart from that, the results are kinda all over the place. My best "match" so far is M153 (the Basque marker--Basque?? Really?). But belonging to M153 is nearly inconceivable; I and all my distant male cousins hail from NW Europe, mostly Britain. Comparing my STRs to the clade upstream of M153 (DF17) gives some ambiguous results.
So, should I just be patient and pay for the SNP tests as I can afford them? Or might these techniques actually give me some useful clues?
Thanks!
So what I've been doing is using a combination of my own 37-marker results, YSearch (comparing my panel to those of known, tested deep-clade members), a TMRCA calculator, and age estimates of various subclades to try to "predict" which one I might belong to.
How reliable a methodology is this? The only thing I've been able to ascertain with any measure of certainty so far is that I'm not M222. (I'm not U152 either; I paid for that SNP test.) Apart from that, the results are kinda all over the place. My best "match" so far is M153 (the Basque marker--Basque?? Really?). But belonging to M153 is nearly inconceivable; I and all my distant male cousins hail from NW Europe, mostly Britain. Comparing my STRs to the clade upstream of M153 (DF17) gives some ambiguous results.
So, should I just be patient and pay for the SNP tests as I can afford them? Or might these techniques actually give me some useful clues?
Thanks!