Someone, male, I don't know comes up at the top of my DNA Relatives list at 23andMe. He is predicted to be a first cousin. My Y haplogroup is T1a1a. His is listed as L-131, which I think is T1a2. We don't share any X, which I believe means we are paternal relatives. The Shared cM Project 3.0 tool v4 predicts any of these relationships:
- Great-Grandparent
- Great-Aunt / Uncle Half Aunt / Uncle
- 1C
- Half Niece / Nephew
- Great-Niece / Nephew
- Great-Grandchild
- Great-Great-Grandparent
- Great-Great-Aunt / Uncle
- Great-Great-Niece / Nephew
- Half Great-Aunt / Uncle
- Half Great-Niece / Nephew
- 1C1R
- Half 1C
I think it's pretty safe to rule out most of them except
- 1C
- Half Niece / Nephew
- 1C1R
- Half 1C
- Great-Niece / Nephew
My DNA test was with the V4 chip. So is it possible that we share a close and/or direct male ancestor if our T subclades are different? Or if my test were done with the V5 chip might it show I'm actually T1a2? Is that possible? I'm still learning about all this, all the more complicated as I find more DNA relatives, the results of the tests become more accurate, and many people include little to no information on their profiles.