Hello all,
I am new to the forum, and I have only recently started studying ancient genetics. My wife and I (both Americans of European descent) both took a commercial genetics test (23 and me) to learn our haplogroups. My results were fairly typical (ydna R-L48, mtdna H5). My wife's results were very surprising, however- her mtdna was shown as C4b despite her being essentially 100% European (her overall ancestry composition result was 99.9% European with less than .1% showing as possible East Asian).
Based on my research here and elsewhere, C4b is very rare in Europe and is most commonly found in Siberian peoples. My wife's maternal line is from eastern Poland with no known connections to Siberia.
While this site is a fantastic treasure trove of information about ancient DNA, there's very little here regarding mtdna C4b. I found one table in the article here regarding Prehistoric European DNA frequencies by period showing that mtdna C4 was found in some bodies from the Catacomb culture. Does anyone know the source of this information (we'd like to read the study in which these results were presented)? Has anyone read or encountered any other discussions of C4 (particularly C4b) in ancient Europe? It's an intriguing mystery for us.
Thanks.
I am new to the forum, and I have only recently started studying ancient genetics. My wife and I (both Americans of European descent) both took a commercial genetics test (23 and me) to learn our haplogroups. My results were fairly typical (ydna R-L48, mtdna H5). My wife's results were very surprising, however- her mtdna was shown as C4b despite her being essentially 100% European (her overall ancestry composition result was 99.9% European with less than .1% showing as possible East Asian).
Based on my research here and elsewhere, C4b is very rare in Europe and is most commonly found in Siberian peoples. My wife's maternal line is from eastern Poland with no known connections to Siberia.
While this site is a fantastic treasure trove of information about ancient DNA, there's very little here regarding mtdna C4b. I found one table in the article here regarding Prehistoric European DNA frequencies by period showing that mtdna C4 was found in some bodies from the Catacomb culture. Does anyone know the source of this information (we'd like to read the study in which these results were presented)? Has anyone read or encountered any other discussions of C4 (particularly C4b) in ancient Europe? It's an intriguing mystery for us.
Thanks.