What's Your Y-DNA Haplogroup?

[lianohortaroudia]

You are female are you not? Did your father or brother test?

brother.

[Äijä]

You said you must descend from the first humans in the Balkans on account of his YDNA clade.

But of course, that's just one line amongst millions. In Cameroon a lot of people are R1b but they're not Indo-European. Similarly, not all my ancestors were E1b1b1c1a and not all of yours were I2a2a. Ultimately YDNA shows 1 line of descent and that's really it. He's no more descended from ancient Balkaners than you are, assuming similar ancestry.

But Finns are Mongols, remember that.

[Okirus]

J2b1 - M205

[Linebacker]

I dont know mine,but because of all the halogroup stuff on this forum I remembered my mother had some blood testing done on her a while back(health related) and her paper says she is I2.

[Black Wolf]

I dont know mine,but because of all the halogroup stuff on this forum I remembered my mother had some blood testing done on her a while back(health related) and her paper says she is I2.

I2 could be your mother's mtDNA haplogroup as I am sure you know women do not have Y-DNA.

[Linebacker]

I2 could be your mother's mtDNA haplogroup as I am sure you know women do not have Y-DNA.

I have no Idea what both mean.Im not a gene scientist.

Under her blood type which is 0 is a paragraph saying H-I2.

[Furnace]

I dont know mine,but because of all the halogroup stuff on this forum I remembered my mother had some blood testing done on her a while back(health related) and her paper says she is I2.

So your mom is a man?

[Stefan_Dusan]

I have no Idea what both mean.Im not a gene scientist.

Under her blood type which is 0 is a paragraph saying H-I2.

This is something else, she would need a genetic test not a blood test for her mtDNA to be read.

So to give you a brief explanation, there is a haplogroup relevant to men, the Y-haplogroup, and a haplogroup relevant to women and men, mtDNA. Brief explanation of each;

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Y-haplogroup. There are two chromosomes for sex, X and Y. A woman has XX and a man has XY. The Y determines you being a man. When people reproduce, both the man and the woman donate a chromosome at random. Obviously a woman can only give X as she is XX but a man can give X or Y since he is XY. If he gives Y his child is a male, if he gives X, his child is a female. So the Y-chromosome is tied to your male line, the same Y-haplogroup you share with your father who shares with his father, all the way back thousands of years. It's insane to think about.
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mtDNA.
I don't know much about this, but I suspect it comes from the egg. Obviously the woman donates an egg, and the man a sperm to become a child. Inside this egg is mtDNA and as you mature inside this egg, you inherit this mtDNA. Since only your mother provides this egg, you share her mtDNA. Since her mother provided the egg for her, likewise all the way for thousands of years. Now you will also share this mtDNA with all your siblings being brothers or sisters since your mother's egg was used for all of you. But you will not share the mtDNA of your father since he got his from his mother's egg. With Y-haplogroup you will share with your brothers again (since they got from your father) but your sisters will not have it.

[Linebacker]

Yeah thanks for the clear up Stefan,I guess I should have posted that in the mtDna thread.

[Mazik]

R1a-Z284+

Apparently the viking clade of R1a