What is your mtDNA Haplogroup

[Frederick]

K is still increadable low.
2.94%

Why is that?

Belgium: 13%
Ireland: 11%
Denmark: 10.5%
Austria: 10.5%
Netherland: 10%
Switzerland: 10%
England: 9.5%
Wales: 9.5%
Germany: 9%
Portugal: 7.5%
Iceland: 7.5%

and so on.....

But 2.94% in here? Come on!

[Boudica]

Mine is H7.

23andme says that it is found highest amongst Scandinavians and Basques. It is supposedly rare and I've been able to find out a bit about it but not as much as I'd like to

[StonyArabia]

Interesting Yes mtDNA H is one of the most common European markers. It's origins are most likely Anatolia or the Caucasus. It spread into Europe during the Ice age. H1 is typical of Iberia as well.

[Kadu]

Mine is H7.

23andme says that it is found highest amongst Scandinavians and Basques. It is supposedly rare and I've been able to find out a bit about it but not as much as I'd like to

That's the info they give for the H haplogroup as whole, but not for H7 specifically.


H7 frequency map according to Álvarez-Iglesias et al 2009





Most of the H7 people that I'm sharing with are French, followed by Eastern Europeans.



H7 haplogroup project on Ftdna

http://www.familytreedna.com/public/...7/default.aspx

[d3cimat3d]

Most of the H7 people that I'm sharing with are French, followed by Eastern Europeans.

I guess this is the Celtiberian maternal haplogroup then, seeing how it's present in Galicia.

[Kadu]

I guess this is the Celtiberian maternal haplogroup then, seeing how it's present in Galicia.

Well, I associate it more with the Völkerwanderung of the Germanic peoples into Iberia. I'm also of a similar subclade, H7a, which definitely peaks in Western Germany, and the Low countries. However the H7 levels in Iberia are so low - in numerical terms I mean - that we can't make a strong case out of this conjecture.

[Frederick]

here is the map of the "H7 Members" project group on FTDNA:

Check for "all members".
The other things are mutation clusters inside of H7

http://www.familytreedna.com/public/...?section=mtmap

[xor eax, eax]

I belong to a seemingly rare subclade of H, H4a1. While it appears to be most common in Northern Europe, my great grandmother was an Italian immigrant and all known relatives prior were also Italian.

[lI]

uebereuropean and extremely rare H14

Mine too, different subclade though.

[Supreme American]

Just got my results... H1 maternally. No paternal DNA available.



13,000 years ago, not long after the end of the Ice Age. At that time much of Europe was covered by glacial ice sheets that descended southward from Scandinavia and extended across the alpine regions of the Pyrenees and Italian Alps. People who had formerly inhabited continental Europe sought refuge in the warmer climates of southern France, the Iberian and Italian peninsulas.

The H1 mutation likely arose in a woman living on the Iberian peninsula. Even today, almost 25% of the Spanish population carries the H1 haplogroup. With the waning of the Ice Age, some populations grew rapidly and expanded northward from the Iberian refuge. Others turned southward, crossing the Strait of Gibraltar into northern Africa.

Following the Atlantic coast northwards, hunter-gatherers carried H1 into what would become the British Isles. As the ice sheets retreated farther they carried the haplogroup as far as Scandinavia. The H1 haplogroup remains quite high in the present-day populations of Britain and Ireland as well, ranging from levels of 15% to 40%.

About 13% of present-day Europeans trace their maternal ancestry to the H1 haplogroup. Though it is of western European origin, it also reaches significant levels outside Europe, from Morocco and Tunisia to Lebanon and east into Central Asia