mtDNA Y is found all along NE Asia coast, Kamchatkha, Korea, some in Indonesia, Philipines, East Europe, Germany, Japan, Czech, Poland, Slovakia, Russia etc....

Lentz male Y mt DNA came to be found in Germany, as well as within the Yamnaya ancient remains found north of the Black Sea in Russia from some 3,500 years ago.


On my GED match I have some Danish or Norway person mixed with Philipino that has Y2 matching big segments. Does it indicate that these people mixed big into South Indians due to Sea trade during Pallava & later Chola time ?




Admix calculator says the person is

50% Filipino_ +50% North_German_ @ 4.089948
Using 3 populations approximation:
1 50% Filipino_ +25% French_ +25% Lithuanian_ @ 3.461955

So probably a mixed person, but match comes out pretty big

Largest segment = 14.1 cM
Total Half-Match segments (HIR) = 187.7 cM (5.238 Pct)
65 shared segments found for this comparison.
156134 SNPs used for this comparison.

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This article at WikiPedia provides a chart of where mtDNA haplogroup Y has been found in academic studies, along with the following verbiage:

Haplogroup Y has been found with high frequency in many indigenous populations who live around the Sea of Okhotsk, including approximately 66% of Nivkhs, approximately 38% of Ulchs, approximately 21% of Negidals, and approximately 20% of Ainus. It is also fairly common among indigenous peoples of the Kamchatka Peninsula (Koryaks, Itelmens) and Maritime Southeast Asia.

The distribution of haplogroup Y in populations of the Malay Archipelago contrasts starkly with the absence or extreme rarity of this haplogroup in populations of continental Southeast Asia in a manner reminiscent of haplogroup E. However, the frequency of haplogroup Y fades more smoothly away from its maximum around the Sea of Okhotsk in Northeast Asia, being found in approximately 2% of Koreans and in South Siberian and Central Asian populations with an average frequency of 1%.

Its subclade Y2 has been observed in 40% (176/440) of a large pool of samples from Nias in western Indonesia, ranging from a low of 25% (3/12) among the Zalukhu subpopulation to a high of 52% (11/21) among the Ho subpopulation