J2a

J2a-Z6049: finally more substructure in this old J2a* clade

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I worked trough the evidence for this old J2a clade for ISOGG certification and found new structure: http://tree.j2-m172.info/?Hg=J2a1b Z6049 is equivalent to S18476/SK2198. A new subclade is SK1312 for whom so far all Georgian BigY are positive: 270352, 259005, 258936 Since Z6048 has no coverage in BigY we have to wait until FTDNA is able to complete the BigY of […]

Ancient Y-DNA discussion: no J2a in pre-Bronze Europe?

 in Haplogroup / J2a-M410 / L24 / M67  tagged ancient DNA / Bronze Age / E1b / G2a / I1 / I2 / J2a / J2b / R1a / R1b / V13 / Y-Chromosome by

UPDATE 10 November 2014: The publication of DNA data from Neolithic to Iron Age Hungary did make a revision of this article necessary, as the sample BR2 (ca. 3,200 years old) was found to be positive for J2a-M67-CTS3261 (Kandell T.). His autosomal analysis lets suspect that he descends mainly from Western ancestors with no near connections to Anatolia Caucasus or […]