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Is the E-V13 gene pool associated with 50% of the Roman Army
The E-V13 males are found in high frequency in the Roman settlement during the 1st through 4th centuries CE by Roman soldiers.
On the SNP Tracker, the drop-down list displays Select an Example and contains "Major Y Haplogroups and Migrations" including:
The FamilyTree DNA E-V13 Group Project attempts to link E-V13 individuals from three regions – Balkans (specifically high E-V13 concentration areas such as Kosovo & Macedonia) – England – German/Swiss border area (Hegau, Thurgau) The project attempts to collect genetic evidence, that all three regions are linked by means of Roman auxiliary troop movements between 15 AD and 260 AD. The hypothesis is based on the fact that Roman legions systematically recruited Balkan populations for expeditions into Western Europe. Some hard archaeological hard facts suggest that after 250 AD up to 50% of all Roman auxiliary troops were from the Balkans.E-M81, J2, R1b Iberian
J2a, E Roman
E-V13, R1b-U106 Anglo-Saxons
Roman soldiers in Britain. Significant frequencies of E-V13 have also been observed in towns in Wales, Chester ancient Deva in England and Scotland. The old trading town of Abergele on the northern coast of Wales in particular showed 7 out of 18 local people tested were in this lineage (approximately 40%), as reported in Weale et al. (2002). Bird (2007) attributes the overall presence of E-V13 in Great Britain, especially in areas of high frequency, to settlement during the 1st through 4th centuries CE by Roman soldiers of Thracian and Dacian ancestry from the Balkan peninsula. Bird proposes a connection to the modern region encompassing Kosovo, southern Serbia, northern Republic of Macedonia, and extreme northwestern Bulgaria (a region corresponding to the Roman province of Moesia Superior), which was identified by Peričic et al. (2005) as harboring the highest frequency worldwide of this sub-clade. However, according to data published so far, E-V13 appears to be notably absent in Central England, a fact which Bird (2007) suggests reflects a genuine population replacement of Romano-British people with Anglo-Saxons:
The “E-V13 hole” suggests that either (a) a massive displacement of the native Romano-British population by invasion or, (b) the substantial genetic replacement of Romano-British Y-DNA through an elite dominance (“apartheid”) model [ Thomas et al. (2006) ], has occurred in Central England. Regardless of the mechanism, the Central England region of Britain, with its lack of E-V13 haplotypes, is the area having the most “striking similarity in the distribution of Y-chromosomes” with Friesland.
—Bird (2007)
Compare the Roman Senatorial Provinces and the E-V13 DNA; both match perfectly! It is like a circle on top of a circle on top of a circle. These types of evidence may strongly point to E-V13 as the founders of the Roman Empire!
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Roman senatorial provinces
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E-V13 on Roman senatorial Provinces
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E-M35 E-V13 Roman Legions Forts AD 80
Greek soldiers in Pakistan. E-V13 have also been used in studies seeking to find evidence of a remaining Greek presence in Afghanistan and Pakistan, going back to the time of Alexander the Great. An extensive analysis of Y diversity within Greeks and three Pakistani populations – the Burusho, Kalash and Pathan – who claim descent from Greek soldiers allowed us to compare Y lineages within these populations and re-evaluate their suggested Greek origins. This study as a whole seems to exclude a large Greek contribution to any Pakistani population, confirming previous observations. However, it provides strong evidence in support of the Greek origins for a small proportion of Pathans, as demonstrated by the clade E network and the low pairwise genetic distances between these two populations.
—Firasat et al. (2006)
A haplogroup is a group of similar genes inherited from a common ancestor. I think that is a very interesting comment in response to the FamilyTreeDNA Forum's members (100% European with African Y-DNA):
https://archive.md/D80iW#selection-1959.26-1959.374My father's paternal line is Austrian but his Y-dna haplogroup is also E ( E-L117). In my father's case the Y-haplogroup probably comes from the Romans, Roman soldiers of Balkan ancestry, the remnants of the Holy Roman Empire. Maybe it is the same in your situation? But I'm still doing my research, so this is just a suggestion, nothing sure yet.
And this one equally so:
https://archive.md/D80iW#selection-2243.26-2243.254Some of my male cousins carry the y-haplogroup E-P277 (which is Subsaharan African), yet show 100% European in their autosomal DNA result. This is because our male African ancestor was many generations ago in colonial Virginia.
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