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You're absolutely right but perhaps in certain cases, haplogroups can be interesting, especially if your haplogroup is atypical for your ethnicity/region.
My mtDNA is extremely rare in NorthWest Africa (less than 1%) and is more likely revealing of a distant maternal European ancestor.
I'm not an expert in genetics but I often got North Slavic/Scandinavian small % in my results and I strangely have many distant Scandinavian "cousins". Could be related to my haplogroup, I have no idea.
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Very interesting post. I agree it's not relevant for determining who or what you are. Be that intrinsically to your nature or what you are made of autosomally. I do believe it is useful for population migration of ancestral groups. Even then though, people should be very careful, considering little is still known. Especially for the most studied haplogroups, there is still little to no ADNA for a good part of the world. Most reliance is heavily based on modern populations which are not stand ins for ancestral movements. The only people who really think it means something are those with an agenda. What we actually know about these lines or ancient peoples who carried them is very little.
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Haplogroups are pretty much completely meaningless on an individual level, but they can be an interesting and useful tool to study entire populations.
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They're almost useless
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