Why isn't MT DNA talked as much as Y DNA?

[21993]

MT DNA is also an indicator of ancestry.

[Matxe92]

Because usually MT haplogroups are very unspecific, mainly because many of the haplogroups are present everywhere in Europe, plus the fact that many people don't want to research them, therefore less information.
Unlike Y-dna haplogroups which are more specific and can tell a bit more.

[Blondie]

Because usually MT haplogroups are very unspecific, mainly because many of the haplogroups are present everywhere in Europe, plus the fact that many people don't want to research them, therefore less information.
Unlike Y-dna haplogroups which are more specific and can tell a bit more.

Yes + Y haplogroup cannot change, so your y haplo and your medieval xxxxxxx great grand father's y haplo is same.

[21993]

Yes + Y haplogroup cannot change, so your y haplo and your medieval xxxxxxx great grand father's y haplo is same.

MT DNA do not can either. Your MT DNA and your medieval xxxxxxx great grand mother's MT DNA is same.

[Blondie]

MT DNA do not can either. Your MT DNA and your medieval xxxxxxx great grand mother's MT DNA is same.

Absolutely not. For example if my grandmother was H3, if my grandfather was I1 than my father would be I1 + H3 later he make a baby with another woman (H5) than this baby would be I1 + H 5 and not H3.

[Matxe92]

Absolutely not. For example if my grandmother was H3, if my grandfather was I1 than my father would be I1 + H3 later he make a baby with another woman (H5) than this baby would be I1 + H 5 and not H3.

Mtdna and y-dna follows your direct maternal or paternal lineage. The same principles apply for both, they behave the same. Mutations occur once every couple of hundred years.

But yes, i wont give my Mtdna haplogroup on to my children that will come from their mother, but i will give my Y-dna to my sons.

[Bellbeaking]

mitrochondrial dna has a higher mutation rate, also you have much more female ancestors than males meaning much more mtdna types and more random distribution

[21993]

Absolutely not. For example if my grandmother was H3, if my grandfather was I1 than my father would be I1 + H3 later he make a baby with another woman (H5) than this baby would be I1 + H 5 and not H3.

Your father's mother was H3. You, your mother, her mother, her grandmother, her great-grandmother, her great-great-grandmother would all be H5a6.

[21993]

also you have much more female ancestors than males meaning much more mtdna types and more random distribution

Do we?

[Blondie]

Your father's mother was H3. You, your mother, her mother, her grandmother, her great-grandmother, her great-great-grandmother would all be H5a6.

Wrong again, your maternal ancestry cannot be same because almost every woman has different mtdna.