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Rarity is relative, you are talking about the male population of China, many millions of men, so even a tiny percentage in China can be a large number of men who are R1b.

The point is that WHG and EHG, who were quite different from each other as seen on PCA plots, and SHG who were a mix, also plotted away from the other two hunter gathers, seem to not be distinguished by the programs used by the researchers. They end up lumped together. Considering their genetic...

It is time to ditch the idea that the Neolithic farmers that ventured into Europe were 100% derived from Anatolian Neolithic farmers. Different cultures mean different people. In the Levant, the Philistines had a different culture, different religion, different burial customs, a different script...

When I was at 23andMe they said that most of Europe does not have sub Saharan ancestry (don't believe it), except countries that had empires across the globe: Portugal, Spain, France, Britain, and places under Muslim control during the Middle Ages i.e Sicily and Malta. My attitude is Seek and...

I live in the Northern Territory, lots of Aborigines here, the correct word to use is Indigenous. Indigenous Australians have both Neanderthal ancestry and Denisovan ancestry. A double whammy of Archaic human ancestry. They vary a lot in phenotype i.e in height,skin tone, hair type, and a lot of...

It is terrible for Europeans who not North or Central European. I remember using the program for fun, and found myself floating in the South Mediterranean Sea north of Alexandria Egypt. It is not flawed so much as its assumptions are biased, a lot of those programs are even those made by...

I am indifferent to the ethnogenesis of particular Europeans, I am only interested in the general European genetic tapestry. I have problems with a lot of papers on dna and genetics. In that Stanford University, Jonathan Pritchard, paper I feel the paper is mixing apples with oranges. North...

What does mtDNA U2 got to do with Steppe herders? In South Asia, India, U2 was probably introduced into India by Iranian farmers in the Neolithic, a long time before the movement of Indo-European speaking peoples left steppes. That ancient "Russian" Markina Gora skeleton was C1b, Y chromosome...

I do not consider J1 as successful. Outside certain parts of Asia and spots in Africa, it is rare everywhere. Now success is R1b, it is in Europe, the New World countries, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, it has a greater distribution than J1 despite the Islamic push following the death of...

Some of the things people believe! Israelites are the people of Israel in a book, and if you remember, they are "lost". Jews are from Judah. The haplogroup mentioned, J-Z18271 is the Kohanim clan of living Jews, whether they actually are descended from Biblical personages I don't know. I would...

J-FGC11 is not the only SNP found in Arabian Tribal men. Downstream SNPs from J-L858 has quite a few Arabian Tribes. You need to look up the pdf produced by Mr. Mas of the J1 project at FTDNA as he lists these Tribes next to their defining SNP, and Banu Azd is J-BY74. But, why would anyone with...

J-Z1884 at the same level as J-L858 which does not tell you much as it is about 5,000 years old. To find anything out about the possible origin of the person who bequeathed the subclade, more SNP testing is needed. How did it end up in England? People traded over long distances, people joined...

I belong to J1. If anyone wants information about J1 subclades you should contact the J1 Project at FTDNA especially Mr Mas who does graphs of relatedness. J-FGC4422 is the descendant of J-FGC4415. I don't know anything about FT350914. What I can tell you is the J-FGC4422 is the parent SNP of...

I have known for a long time that men surnamed Graham belonged to J1, but I thought it was just a peculiarity of some subset of men surnamed Graham. I did not think it was the sign of men of Clan Graham. I wonder how it arrived in Scotland. If you did not know, the surname Cameron means Crooked...

I remember reading that the Villabuna Western Hunter Gatherers had ancestry from the Near East, and that these HGs replaced the Hunter Gatherers in the rest of Europe who had Magdenalian culture. I also, from scanning the pdf that the researchers stated that Northern Europeans have more SGH...

I am mtDNA haplogroup V, so far I am the only one from Malta with that haplogroup. I tried to back track the female line and found disappointingly that my last known female line ancestor had a surname of Borg, which is a common Maltese surname, and I could not find who her mother was. Of course...

Interesting, pity 23andMe does not test for all those SNPs. rs2858333 AG, DQB1*0201 carrier, have the CC version for DQ2.5, and have two of the three SNPs listed for DQ2.2 I am quite well.

When I was at 23andMe I made notes of my Relative List Y chromosome haplogroups and surname. I did that to see how much non paternal events occurred in Maltese people. I found few anomalies which could have been NPE or a freed slave taking their old master's name or a foundling given a surname...

As a Maltese born person, I can tell you that those dna companies, and those dna company ancestry programs, or homemade programs as at GEDmatch, are absolutely hopeless when they come to people of the three Mediterranean peninsulas and the islands. With Northern, Central and West Europeans they...

Ancestry is good for some things and not good for others. It is better for finding relatives, and records if you are willing to pay. It won't give you haplogroups, I know mine anyway from FTDNA and YFull. I was with 23andMe but after being stung by the FDA, 23andMe got very jingoistic, and anti...