Thursday, October 14, 2010
My Female Line's DNA Hattie Jermulowske-Wdna
We found out through my grandmother's granddaughter (my first cousin) from her daughter, Ann, that the female line is of W haplogroup, a haplogroup not even mentioned in the book "The Seven Daughters of Eve." It branches off of N, of which there are two; N1 and N2. One of these has more Ashkenazi Jewish ladies than the other. All indications are that my grandmother came from the wrong one. Now I see that they also have different W's.
P.S. 11/2/2010: The latest thought is that W's came from Central Asia originally.
Peter Fischer gives some W explanation on the W website.
Additionally many Eastern European Ashkenazi are W's. W is as common in the Ashkenazi as it is in the general Eastern European population.However there are distinct W lineages in the Ashkenazi, indicating specific Jewish founding mothers. Unfortunately not many of them have FGS tested so I don't have a good grasp on which W branches these founding mothers are.One tested Jewish W lineage is W3a with C12923T in the Coding Region. All W3a also have T199C. However this isn't restricted to W3a. The HVR1 motif is vanilla. HVR2 is interesting as it has missing A189G.Wells and Behar have found numerous N1 mtDNA sequences in the Askenazi, however this entirely different and unrelated to W's in the Ashkenazi.Also don't take my word on it:http://www.thecid.com/w/natlgeo.htm
The most interesting line in the above article to me was this one: This is interpreted to mean that half of the Ashkenazi are descended from a very small group of women from the Near East of four mtdna haplotypes who migrated to central Europe about 2,000 years ago.
P.S. 11/2/2010: The latest thought is that W's came from Central Asia originally.
Peter Fischer gives some W explanation on the W website.
Additionally many Eastern European Ashkenazi are W's. W is as common in the Ashkenazi as it is in the general Eastern European population.However there are distinct W lineages in the Ashkenazi, indicating specific Jewish founding mothers. Unfortunately not many of them have FGS tested so I don't have a good grasp on which W branches these founding mothers are.One tested Jewish W lineage is W3a with C12923T in the Coding Region. All W3a also have T199C. However this isn't restricted to W3a. The HVR1 motif is vanilla. HVR2 is interesting as it has missing A189G.Wells and Behar have found numerous N1 mtDNA sequences in the Askenazi, however this entirely different and unrelated to W's in the Ashkenazi.Also don't take my word on it:http://www.thecid.com/w/natlgeo.htm
The most interesting line in the above article to me was this one: This is interpreted to mean that half of the Ashkenazi are descended from a very small group of women from the Near East of four mtdna haplotypes who migrated to central Europe about 2,000 years ago.
Labels: Ashkenazi Jews, W MTdna
