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Major update reorganizes entire haplogroup I2 tree

Saturday, November 14, 2020

2020-11-13 draft tree for I-Y4252

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A new Big Y-700 for a Swedish man resolved a block of four SNPs: A10035 and BY33208 occurred first, and A10034 and Y23458 are more recent. The wider I-A10033 haplogroup has an almost completely Scandinavian/continental European distribution with only one sample known from northeastern England.

This update shows some additional branches in other parts of the I-Y4252 tree, these are based on samples with English origin.



Click here to find our previous tree for I-Y4252
Click here for FTDNA's public haplotree for I-Y4252
Click here for YFull's I-Y4252 tree
Click here for a brief description of the I-Y4252 haplogroup

Tuesday, November 10, 2020

New 5000 year old branch below I-Y14718: 2020-11-10 tree for I-Y11222

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This update shows a new branch called I-Y85303, it's below I-Y14718. It's only slightly younger than I-Y14718 as a whole, which has a MRCA date of 5200 years ago according to YFull's calculation. All known members of I-Y85303 have British origin, they belong to two very distantly related groups.

This update also shows:

  • a new branch called I-FT88076, it's specific to an English family.
  • a new level called I-Y54965, it's above I-PH3133. All of these families have origin from Northern Ireland and from the northern part of the Republic of Ireland
  • two new branches below I-Y14722, these are part of the M26-France cluster. Recently I have noticed an increase in Big Y samples from Europe, these people order Big Y-700 as their first test at FTDNA. They order from FTDNA's European affiliate (iGENEA) or directly from FTDNA.


Click here to find our previous tree for I-Y11222
Click here for FTDNA's public haplotree for I-Y11222
Click here for YFull's I-Y11222
Click here for a brief description of the I-Y11222 haplogroup

Thursday, November 5, 2020

A Yorkshire sample at the base of the Isles-C haplogroup: 2020-11-05 tree for I-Y3723

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The Isles-C haplogroup is very characteristic of central-western Ireland. All members of this haplogroup share a large block of approximately 20 SNPs and they also share several distinctive STR marker values.

This update shows a new sample from Yorkshire, England: he is A544/Y5460+ and FGC14453/Y5456+, but he is Y5455/FGC14452- Y5450- and ancestral (negative) for approximately 17 additional SNPs

He also has some key marker values that are diagnostic for Isles-C: DYS572=11 or 12 (he has 11) and DYS444=10.

But he has some other marker values that aren't typical of Isles-C, for example he has DYS385=11-16, the 11 is typical of other branches of Isles I-Y3723, the other Isles-C men have a 12.