Just got my mtDNA test results!

[Lucas]

What retards analize mt among athlets, but not Y?

Good point

[knowledge is king]

There is a database http://www.mitosearch.org/
You can upload your results here I suppose.

[Dr. Robotnik the Subbotnik]

I'm U2e like the Udmurts, it's a rare haplogroup actually, most common among Udmurts and Mordvins of Russia

[knowledge is king]

To the bottom.

Can you establish some useful information by studying your mtDNA at the first place?

The problem is, it isn't changing so fast as Y-dna.
All people, who live in one specific area, they all can have similar mtDNA.
Secondly, people of completely different ethnicities can have the same mtDNA.

Hence this results you got, they won't tell your ethnicity, neither your origin.

So, finally, what exact information can you know, by studying your mtDNA?

[Dr. Robotnik the Subbotnik]

To the bottom.

Can you establish some useful information by studying your mtDNA at the first place?

The problem is, it isn't changing so fast as Y-dna.
All people, who live in one specific area, they all can have similar mtDNA.
Secondly, people of completely different ethnicities can have the same mtDNA.

Hence this results you got, they won't tell your ethnicity, neither your origin.

So, finally, what exact information can you know, by studying your mtDNA?

I think mtdna and Y dna probably both matter to some extent

I've heard they both can influence brain function.

It doesn't say much about your ethnic origins but perhaps in mind I am closer to an Udmurt because of it. Who knows. My Y-dna is Irish and my mtDNA is mostly found in Uralic-speaking groups of Russia (Udmurts, Mordvins, etc.)

[MePologize]

Did you do BigY Already?

[knowledge is king]

I think mtdna and Y dna probably both matter to some extent

I've heard they both can influence brain function.

It doesn't say much about your ethnic origins but perhaps in mind I am closer to an Udmurt because of it. Who knows. My Y-dna is Irish and my mtDNA is mostly found in Uralic-speaking groups of Russia (Udmurts, Mordvins, etc.)

As long as I studied this topic till this moment.

I can say, you should make a full sequence of mtDNA to know your specific haplogroup for sure.
The results in 23andMe and mtPlus are inaccurate.

Secondly, mtDNA can be homogeneously distributed over vast area. It won't tell you anything specific basically.
You can't tell, that certain people of specific ethnicity have your mtDNA, because they are widely distributed among people.

[de Burgh II]

If anyone wants to research more scholarly journals/articles for their mtdna and ydna haplogroups; you can use google scholar to cross reference a good portion of articles from genealogical researchers/geneticists here...

https://scholar.google.com/

[knowledge is king]

Becasue women are clanless, so they were distributing widly, and the same is mt.
As you can see also from any ancient study, they were scattered already in the
times, when paleoethnicities (who were almost stricktly paternal) emerged.

And mt can be also transmitted by men - not often, but such possible existed.
So if you have 200-300 female generations in last 4-5k years, there is certainly
at least one accident, if not couple of them. You can;t be sure, that it is pure
female line, even if you would want to give to that fact some artificial meaning.

What is funny, the main clades are dated as even older than these 5000 years,
so at least theoretically (because mankind doesn;t exist so long) those incidents
are much more often, as I did suggest.

I am trying to order Big-Y currently, but my previous Y-32 test isn't ready and thus I have not access to it at this moment.

I read, that I can ask my group administrator in order to do it or otherwise I can write to FTDNA support to make this order.

I have a coupon of 100$ discount for it also. But I am not sure if I can afford it at full price of 575$.

I wrote in both direction actually, but they don't answer me in several days.

Can you suggest what should I do in this situation?

How can I order and pay Big-Y when my previous test isn't ready yet?

[knowledge is king]

Waite for your result. Do not be so quick!

Idk, how, becasue I didn't do this myself. But admin should do this for you.

Basically, I was recommended not to waste my money on any other test and to buy Big-Y straight away. Later I should upload my .bam file to yFull for more appropriate interpretation.

I can order a full sequence of Y later for deep scientific studies here, for instance. https://www.fullgenomes.com/

But Big-Y himself can grant some basic results. It will give me 400 markers in comparison to 100 in Y-111. But this will be not the same markers. This is why I should make a third party test like YSEQ later or to make a full sequence to be specific.

Basically, I read, that Big-Y is the last test, that I need in studies of my Y-chromosome.