Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Jermulowske DNA Test Results
I had thought that my Jewish Grandmother "Bubby" would turn out to be a K haplogroup. I was wrong. The line is the W haplogroup. That haplogroup is so small that it wasn't even listed as a possibility.
Our MTdna as far as we know goes back to Hattie Jermulowske, wife of Nathan Goldfoot. She was born January 11, 1886 in Suwalki, Lithuania/Poland/Russia. Her haplogroup just became known today. It is W.
The information on familytreedna says that it is derived from the N superhaplogroup, which dates to about 65,000 years ago. W dates to about 25,000 years ago and it is mainly found in West Eurasia (or Europe). It is likely that women bearing this partipated in the expansion into the bulk of Europe following the Last Glacial Maximum (which was about 10,000 years ago).
More work needs to be done like getting more samples from Central Asia will refine the historical distribution of this haplogroup and determine the role it played in the peopling of Europe.
Under "Recent Ancestral Origins" I see that she matches Ashkenazi in Belarus, Hungary, Lithuania, the Russian Federation and Ukraine. She matched 1 person out of 482 people from austria, which was a 0.2% match, not listed as Ashkenazi, by the way.
Under Haplogroup Origins I see 6 Ashkenazi match from the Russian Federation, 3 Ashkenazi match from Lithuania, 2 Ashkenazi match from Ukraine.
In all, familytreedna found 28 matches that are W. I have joined her up with the W group listed on familytreedna. The goals of the project are: To provide a forum for sharing ideas and information. To help identify relationships within the group based upon DNA and documentation. To provide encouragement and assistance to those researching all aspects of this group. Familytreedna came through with the results before I thought they would. That is wonderful.
"Haplogroup W was one of five European mtdna haplogroups (T, U, V, W, and X) first defined in a scientific paper in 1996. In 1996 genetic testing was still difficult and expensive. The entire 16,568 letters of the mtdna could not be analyzed. The sample was limited to 67 Scandinavians. In the original 1996 paper, haplogroup W was identified as those with a changes in letter 8994 of the mtdna from G to A compared to the Cambridge Reference Sequence. "
Haplogroup W is a human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroup.
Haplogroup W appears in the western Ural Mountains and the eastern Baltic, though it is also found in India. Its ancestral haplogroup was haplogroup N.
I just read from the site below on our W line. It refers to the N haplogroup and association with Ashkenazi women, so I suggest reading it.
9/11/09: Distribution
Haplogroup W appears in Europe, West and South Asia[2]. It is everywhere found as minority clade, with the highest concentration being in Northern Pakistan[3].
http://www.thecid.com/w/natlgeo.htm
Our MTdna as far as we know goes back to Hattie Jermulowske, wife of Nathan Goldfoot. She was born January 11, 1886 in Suwalki, Lithuania/Poland/Russia. Her haplogroup just became known today. It is W.
The information on familytreedna says that it is derived from the N superhaplogroup, which dates to about 65,000 years ago. W dates to about 25,000 years ago and it is mainly found in West Eurasia (or Europe). It is likely that women bearing this partipated in the expansion into the bulk of Europe following the Last Glacial Maximum (which was about 10,000 years ago).
More work needs to be done like getting more samples from Central Asia will refine the historical distribution of this haplogroup and determine the role it played in the peopling of Europe.
Under "Recent Ancestral Origins" I see that she matches Ashkenazi in Belarus, Hungary, Lithuania, the Russian Federation and Ukraine. She matched 1 person out of 482 people from austria, which was a 0.2% match, not listed as Ashkenazi, by the way.
Under Haplogroup Origins I see 6 Ashkenazi match from the Russian Federation, 3 Ashkenazi match from Lithuania, 2 Ashkenazi match from Ukraine.
In all, familytreedna found 28 matches that are W. I have joined her up with the W group listed on familytreedna. The goals of the project are: To provide a forum for sharing ideas and information. To help identify relationships within the group based upon DNA and documentation. To provide encouragement and assistance to those researching all aspects of this group. Familytreedna came through with the results before I thought they would. That is wonderful.
"Haplogroup W was one of five European mtdna haplogroups (T, U, V, W, and X) first defined in a scientific paper in 1996. In 1996 genetic testing was still difficult and expensive. The entire 16,568 letters of the mtdna could not be analyzed. The sample was limited to 67 Scandinavians. In the original 1996 paper, haplogroup W was identified as those with a changes in letter 8994 of the mtdna from G to A compared to the Cambridge Reference Sequence. "
Haplogroup W is a human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroup.
Haplogroup W appears in the western Ural Mountains and the eastern Baltic, though it is also found in India. Its ancestral haplogroup was haplogroup N.
I just read from the site below on our W line. It refers to the N haplogroup and association with Ashkenazi women, so I suggest reading it.
9/11/09: Distribution
Haplogroup W appears in Europe, West and South Asia[2]. It is everywhere found as minority clade, with the highest concentration being in Northern Pakistan[3].
http://www.thecid.com/w/natlgeo.htm
