Tuesday, March 06, 2012
Q1b1 Non Israelite Y DNA
The main ethnic element of Ashkenazim (German and Eastern European Jews), Sephardim (Spanish and Portuguese Jews), Mizrakhim (Middle Eastern Jews), Juhurim (Mountain Jews of the Caucasus), Italqim (Italian Jews), and most other modern Jewish populations of the world is Israelite. The Israelite haplotypes fall into Y-DNA haplogroups J and E.
Ashkenazim also descend, in a smaller way, from European peoples from the northern Mediterranean region and even less from Slavs and Khazars. The non-Israelite Y-DNA haplogroups include Q (typically Central Asian) and R1a1 (typically Eastern European but the Ashkenazic variant comes from somewhere in Asia, probably Central Asia). We from Q1b1 are 5% of the Jewish population.
Reference: http://www.khazaria.com/genetics/abstracts.html
Labels: .(M378) Ashkenazim, Ashkenazi Jewish Q, Q1b1
