Hi, I am not sure if everyone is in the yahoo group yet.Thoughts on samples 3 and 4? Igor S. Veselinovic, Dragana M. Zgonjanin, Miljen P. Maletin, Oliver ...
Fellow Qs: 1) Heres an article about being a Q that I wrote some months ago in the Forward. http://www.forward.com/articles/11786/ 2) and heres the URL to the...
Hi Michael, They added the decimal point to P36 for the new YCC 2008 tree. They found that it occurred twice, once in Haplogroup A and once in Haplogroup Q....
Hi, There is both a project for all Q and one for Ashkenazi Q. Admitance to the Ashkenazi project is determined by Dave Howard based on family history. There...
I agree on most points. I agree to be Jewish, One should "A Jew is one who takes Judaism seriously. One who takes Judaism seriously studies it, argues with it,...
I have put up some interesting papers that have been published in the last few years discussing the genetic origins of the Ashkenazi Jewish people. I am...
Hi, I also think these two new articles are worth reading. Behar DM, Metspalu E, Kivisild T, Rosset S, Tzur S, et al. (2008) Counting the Founders: The...
Hi, The walk through on the number of ancestors anyone has goes something like this. Say that the average number of years per generation is 25. Now we know ...
After 9 or 10 generations you far exceeds the average population of the Shtetl, and you'd have to figure that the original population of Ashkenazim in northern...
Right, Rebecca, I've seen this happen in American families from the 1600's, 1700's, etc. There was a limited amount of people to choose mates from, and they...
The mtDNA and yDNA data is helping us find what happened. It appears that the ancestors of Ashkenazim migrated north out of Italy and the Mediterannian area...
Chet, Things don't get as bad as being your own grampa. :-) But you can see how with a small starting population like 25,000 in the thirteen hundreds...
I am a Q1, my family came from Switzerland via Alsace France to the US in 1770. But my recorded ancestors were Lutheran, and before that Catholic, The Q within...
Dear all, I am the Alessandro Biondo cited by Dave about in his post. Let me add some ideas to the discussion about the origin of Q in Ashkenazim, and in non...
In general, to assign a birth place to a haplogroup, two methods are used. The first one is the today's geographical presence: for example the Q* group's...
Dear Mr Krupa, let me confirm that I think the Middle Ages eastern invaders (Khazars, but also Avars, Bulgars, and Huns), as the more likely source of my (and...
Reading the posts following my comments, it seems to me that the lenght of my comments highlighted some parts and shaded some other. Please let me highlight...
plz it's mishpocha here, whenever I hear comrade it makes me think of berthold brecht or refuseniks ... in any ... determine whether ... Chechens. ... our DNA ...
Hi, I just uploaded this paper to the files. It is perhaps significant that Q is only found in the isolated sample. There are supplemental files that I can...
A study published in 2004 by Stephen L. Zegura states that "The mutational age of Q-P36*, the marker defining the entire Q lineage, is 17,700 ± 4,820 years...
I have included article from Wikipedia, as it quote known and new findings. About Hazara people; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazara_people ... Ova poruka...
Hi, That is High-Resolution SNPs and Microsatellite Haplotypes Point to a Single, Recent Entry of Native American Y Chromosomes into the Americas Stephen L....
Hi, The Sindhi and Hazara samples come from Sengupta 2006. I have placed the new YCC 2008 <http://www.familytreedna.com/pdf/2008-HaploChart_GR_lores.pdf>names ...
Rebekah, We will call Q1b Mongol, because whole Q is Mongol.But it is interesting that this peoples are considered to be originaly from Mongolia. Presence of...
Alfred, I think that if you define Ashkenazi Q as of "mongolian" origin, we need also to explain why other mongolic haplogroups (notably the typical mongolian...
Allesandro, Simple is that to explain if we know history of Khazars. They were part of early Turkic tribes who lived separately from others /Hungars and...