Lemba Y-DNA

[Black Wolf]

For years now scientists have been studying the genetic origins of the Lemba people who are called ''the black Jews of Southern Africa''. Y-DNA results have shown that the Lemba do indeed drive most of their paternal genetic ancestors from a Near Eastern/Mediterranean source. Overall Y-DNA haplogroup J is the most frequent haplogroup observed among the Lemba and it's subclades J1 and J2 are pretty much equally represented among the Lemba. Y-DNA haplogroup T1b has also apparently been found among the Lemba in significant amounts which also probably has a Near Eastern origin. Lemba tradition has it that their paternal line ancestors were Near Eastern Jewish males who originally came to the coast of Zimbabwe as traders and merchants but ended up settling there and helped to build the old civilization of Great Zimbabwe. However the most recent study of Lemba Y-chromosomes does not really support a Jewish origin of the non-African Y-DNA found among the Lemba but it does support Near Eastern ancestry which probably came to the Lemba through Near Eastern traders who came there through trade routes via the Indian Ocean.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemba_people

http://www.samj.org.za/index.php/samj/article/view/7297/5714

http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.3378/027.083.0103

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10677325

[Not a Cop]

For years now scientists have been studying the genetic origins of the Lemba people who are called ''the black Jews of Southern Africa''. Y-DNA results have shown that the Lemba do indeed drive most of their paternal genetic ancestors from a Near Eastern/Mediterranean source. Overall Y-DNA haplogroup J is the most frequent haplogroup observed among the Lemba and it's subclades J1 and J2 are pretty much equally represented among the Lemba. Y-DNA haplogroup T1b has also apparently been found among the Lemba in significant amounts which also probably has a Near Eastern origin. Lemba tradition has it that their paternal line ancestors were Near Eastern Jewish males who originally came to the coast of Zimbabwe as traders and merchants but ended up settling there and helped to build the old civilization of Great Zimbabwe. However the most recent study of Lemba Y-chromosomes does not really support a Jewish origin of the non-African Y-DNA found among the Lemba but it does support Near Eastern ancestry which probably came to the Lemba through Near Eastern traders who came there through trade routes via the Indian Ocean.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemba_people

http://www.samj.org.za/index.php/samj/article/view/7297/5714

http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.3378/027.083.0103

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10677325

Interesing, have there been found any ethnic group practising judaism and not having genetic link to middle east?

[Black Wolf]

Interesing, have there been found any ethnic group practising judaism and not having genetic link to middle east?

I think that may be the case for Ethiopian Jews and the Jews of India but I could be wrong.

[Rethel]

What are the exact hgs and propotions of hgs among them?