Salento
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- Ethnic group
- Italian
- Y-DNA haplogroup
- T1a2 - SK1480
- mtDNA haplogroup
- H12a
Why are all (but one) my DNA samples and Deep Dive results given as being R1b1a.... but I'm a confirmed E1b1b1a1b1a? The only example that MTA can provide that actually matches is "Late Medieval Cancelleria Basilica"
I would have expected there to have been no matches if the haplogroups don't match.? Maybe genetics works differently?
Or are MTA just padding out the results to make it look like I'm actually getting something after paying my money?
Haplogroups don’t necessarily determine your matches and ethnicity.
Your male line: your Father, his Father and so on have Mothers too, … their Fathers could have a different Y Haplogroup than your male line.
Humans have 23 pair of chromosomes (46),
… of the first 22 pairs (autosomes) you get one chromosome from each Parent,
… than comes the 23rd, the sex chromosome, as male you get only one X chromosome from your Mother, and the Y chromosome from your Father (your Y Haplogroup,) females don’t get the Y chr… Females get the X pair (one X from each parent),
… mtDNA is not a chromosome, but it determines female Haplogroups.