What does Haplogroups mean?

[Magnus1]

I was wondering what does the concept of haplogroup mean and does it make you still an ethnicity even after immigration to a country and being mixed for decades

[celticdragongod]

I was wondering what does the concept of haplogroup mean and does it make you still an ethnicity even after immigration to a country and being mixed for decades

Haplogroups relate to Y-chromosomes and mitochondrial DNA. They only tell you about a small percentage of your genome. Autosomal DNA will give you a more complete picture of your ethnic background.

[Universe]

They're meaningless.

[rothaer]

They're meaningless.

They help for determining past migrations but are themselves to the bearer of hardly any biological relevance.

In particular they are not representative of someone's ancestry. They are derived from an indifinitely small proportion of the ancestry. Regardless of this some individuals have become devoted to their haplogroup(s) as kind of determining identity. Eventually the felt identity is a matter of taste but in this case I consider it based on an intellectual misunderstanding and somewhat arbitrary.

I've spent money on finding out my haplogroups for curiosity and for contributing to science by uploading them to respective phylogenetic trees and giving origin information. I can encourage everyone to do so.