The Y DNA haplogroup M70 is the most elusive and intriguing. Does anyone know how it reach the Norther Somali coastline and around when? I've read somehwhere it has something to do with Phoenician or (even earlier) sumerian sea-farers.![]()
Also, I've always thought it bizarre that R1b and R1a didn't each have their own letter in the alphabet. These are enormous groups after all, especially R1b. Were political considerations involved in the naming decisions?
Checking the T1a in Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania and Madagascar I found a 10 year old paper that matches these markers for T1a and O2a in east Africa............I guess they came via east and south India
According to Neetu Negi et al 2015, Haplogroup T1a-M70 in India has been considered to be of West Eurasian origin.
thanksNow, at least part of the mystery have been unlocked: Dirs and Garhajis belongs, as I predicted several month ago, to T1a1a2b son branch of Y16897 and reached Horn of Africa from the Arabian Peninsula through the Gulf of Aden.
DYS425=14
I have added them to the tree:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/Haplogroup_T-M184_tree.png
It originated in Somalia.The Y DNA haplogroup M70 is the most elusive and intriguing. Does anyone know how it reach the Norther Somali coastline and around when? I've read somehwhere it has something to do with Phoenician or (even earlier) sumerian sea-farers.![]()
It is puzzling that the Dirs of Somalia ( T1a3 ) have nothing in common with YemeniYes, Lembas are added under T1a2b2
It spread downstreams from Somalia to Yemenis and Indians, all the clades show it.It is puzzling that the Dirs of Somalia ( T1a3 ) have nothing in common with Yemeni
The T in yemeni appear to be only of israeli people
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2010/06/genetics-the-jewish-question/#.WaXVbtFLdPY
and the lemba also from these
IIRC the lemba seem to be from Yazd ( persia ) in origin ............Yazd , I do not mean yazidi even though yazidi and zorastrian have a "fire" god
here is Yfull 5.05V with age of marker ..............on the right I noted any changes of terminology between the 2Just wondering! isogg names the subclades differently, for example:
T1a2b L446
T1a2b1 CTS933
T1a2b1a1 CTS8489
T1a2b1a1a Y17493
https://isogg.org/tree/ISOGG_HapgrpT.html