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- Location
- Michigan
- Ethnic group
- White European
- Y-DNA haplogroup
- G-Z6147
- mtDNA haplogroup
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NatGeo Geno2.0 gave me G-P303. I wasn't sure if that was as specific as they went or if I was baseline P303, so I did the FTDNA Y-DNA test. It gave me "presumed" G-M201 and I found I had to buy SNPs to narrow it down. They offered a pretty-much-everything-G pack, "G - M201v2 SNP Pack," so I bought it. I just got the results, which say G-P303 "tested positive", but "tested negative" or "presumed negative" for everything below it.
Here's the thing. One of my matches on FTDNA Y-DNA tested his down to G-Z6147. He lists his earliest known paternal ancestor as someone who appears to be my fifth great grandfather's brother, so we presumably share their father as our most recent common ancestor. Someone I found through a genealogy site who is descended from the same fifth great grandfather as I has his tested down to G-Z6885. Z6147 is downstream of that, so I assumed I would get Z6147, since these groups are thousands of years old, and my lineage diverged from these fellows only a few hundred years ago. For me, both of those subgroups have an asterisk and "No call or heterozygous call."
Am I correct in assuming that my Y-haplogroup is G-Z6147 and that my chromosome just happens to have a mutation that masks that fact?
Here's the thing. One of my matches on FTDNA Y-DNA tested his down to G-Z6147. He lists his earliest known paternal ancestor as someone who appears to be my fifth great grandfather's brother, so we presumably share their father as our most recent common ancestor. Someone I found through a genealogy site who is descended from the same fifth great grandfather as I has his tested down to G-Z6885. Z6147 is downstream of that, so I assumed I would get Z6147, since these groups are thousands of years old, and my lineage diverged from these fellows only a few hundred years ago. For me, both of those subgroups have an asterisk and "No call or heterozygous call."
Am I correct in assuming that my Y-haplogroup is G-Z6147 and that my chromosome just happens to have a mutation that masks that fact?