My FTDNA mtDNA haplogroup is here

[Kamal900]

Your mtDNA is native to the Near East. It's presence in Europe is related to Neolithic farmers who spread to Europe from the Near East. You are not European.

That's really awesome, lol.

[Neon Knight]

https://www.familytreedna.com/groups...out/background

mtDNA haplogroup U3 is present in low percentages throughout Europe and Western Asia. It is an ancient haplogroup arising over 30,000 year ago from the very old haplogroup U. It rises to its greatest frequencies in the Near East and Southern Caucasus, that is the mountainous area of Western Iran, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Syria, Jordan and Iraq, where the percentages vary between 4 and 8 percent. Currently U3 can be divided into three subclades, U3a, U3b and U3c. The latter is a subclade of the original U3ac and split off from U3a 1000's of years ago. All three subclades occur in the above mentioned areas with the exception of Turkey and Armenia, where U3c appears to be absent and U3a is very rare, those countries being dominated by U3b.

In Europe U3 is still common in Bulgaria and the eastern most islands of the Mediterranean Sea, Cyprus, Rhodes, Crete, where percentages rise to 3 or 4 percent, but becomes rarer and rarer as one moves west with one exception. Again Bulgaria, the Greek mainland and Etruscan Italy are dominated by U3b, whereas the Mediterranean Islands and the rest of Italy have all three subclades.

The one exception is one sub-branch of subclade U3a called U3a1 which appears to have originated in Europe. At least at this point no instance of this clade has been observed in the Mid-East. This sub-branch dominates U3 in Western Europe especially along the Atlantic coast making up over 60% of U3 in these areas with frequencies rising to as high as 1% of the total population in Scotland and Wales and as high as 3 or 4% in Iceland.

Do you know which branch of U3 you are?

[Kamal900]

https://www.familytreedna.com/groups...out/background



Do you know which branch of U3 you are?

Not yet since that knowing your sub-clade is a separate test you need to take and pay after you get your haplogroup. I will take it when my big brother gets his salary this month. Is the haplogroup rare or something?

[Neon Knight]

It looks like it is quite rare and very ancient! Mine is > 15,000 years old and most common in Lebanon but also significant in Ireland and Poland. But I get it from an English line.

[Taiguaitiaoghyrmmumin]

I Just realized how weird some anthro members are.

[Neon Knight]

I Just realized how weird some anthro members are.

Weird in what way? I think this is one of the saner threads!

[Taiguaitiaoghyrmmumin]

Weird in what way? I think this is one of the saner threads!

I would be breaching privacy if I explained this. But gilgamesh probably has an idea.

[Gaston]

Mazel tov!

I Just realized how weird some anthro members are.

I realized it years ago. Your case helped a bit in a much more recent past.

[Taiguaitiaoghyrmmumin]

Mazel tov!




I realized it years ago. Your case helped a bit in a much more recent past.

Yes Except mine had to do with Internet trolls. This is different...

[Kamal900]

I would be breaching privacy if I explained this. But gilgamesh probably has an idea.

I post my results to let everyone know about my results, and i don't like being so secretive about it either.