mtDNA N1'5

[martc1974]

My mtDNA haplogroup result is N1'5 and I'm slightly baffled and intrigued by what this means. Most of known ancestry is very rooted in a small area of eastern England. My Y-DNA is an easier to explain/understand I1a1b1.

I'm struggling to find much information about N1'5 or what it might mean.

Can anyone help? Does anyone share it? How rare is it in Britain/Western Europe?

Thanks in advance for your help!

[Kevin Brook]

N1'5 means ancestral to both N1 and N5. It does seem to be rare.

I'm not sure if you know this yet but MW344641 is a GenBank sample collected from a resident of the United Kingdom for the study 'Mitochondrial DNA abnormalities provide mechanistic insight and predict reactive oxygen species-stimulating drug efficacy".

YFull's MTree lists this sample as N1'5*, like you.

The only other N1'5* that they currently list is YFull customer ID YF067724, who provided no information on nationality or ethnolinguistic background.