Recently Wim Penninx posted in the ISOGG Facebook group about his analysis of the known Y-DNA ancestors of Ashkenazi Jews (from where did they arrive in the area of the kingdom of Poland and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth). The first quick look revealed a pearl of citizen science using a large collection of Direct to Consumer […]
The power of citizen science unfolds by the comparison of public research data with thousends of DTC-test-results. In the case of Ötzi the Iceman the Y-haplogroup found in research papers as terminal is so far G2a2a1a2-L91/PF3246/S285 (b37 position 21645555 G->C). Update August 2020: Ötzi has no known paternal line descendants (more Alpine men Y-DNA would be […]
The topic when and where the most recent common ancestor (MRCA) of all human Y-chromosomes (somehow misleading but popularly called “Y-Adam”), inherited paternally from father to sons, did live, is one of the hottest topics in the population genetics field and affects also research and tools used by genetic genealogists focusing on the paternal lineage […]
Ian Logan has posted a very interesting information for Alpine DNA research in the genealogy-dna@rootsweb.com list: A set of 35 ‘Austrian’ mtDNA sequecnes has appeared on GenBank. They are to accompany a paper (unpublished as yet) by: Kloss-Brandstaetter,A., Schaefer,G., Erhart,G., Stoeckl,A., Weissensteiner,H., Forer,L., Schoenherr,S., Pacher,D., Seifarth,C., Sottsas,I., Klocker,H., Pallua,J.D., Kronenberg,F. and Kloss,F.R. “Mutations in the […]
