Did the new haplogroup split R-FTG47

[Tarek]

My autosomal Y haplogroup from FamilyTreeDNA was R-P249 and after upgrading to bigY it became R-FTG47. Now R-FTG47 had only two persons one from Kazakhstan and me and there are no Y match even in Y12 and it seems that the last common ancestor was from 5000 years. Doesn't that mean that R-FTG47 branched and there is a new haplogroup?

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[axqrk]

My autosomal Y haplogroup from FamilyTreeDNA was R-P249 and after upgrading to bigY it became R-FTG47. Now R-FTG47 had only two persons one from Kazakhstan and me and there are no Y match even in Y12 and it seems that the last common ancestor was from 5000 years. Doesn't that mean that R-FTG47 branched and there is a new haplogroup?

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Your Y-DNA haplogroup is extremely rare as well as recently discovered. Instead of creating a new branch, you refined the clade. The Kazakh sample was tested back sometime in January this year and got a specific placement, funded by FTDNA due to splitting YDNA R-M124, otherwise known as R2a. What your sample did was simply refine the placement, making it more accurate to both you and the Kazakh sample.