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Daughters of Mitochondrial Eve

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There is a good book called The Seven Daughters of Eve, by Bryan Sykes, Professor of Human Genetics, University of Oxford about MTDNA etc.

According to Bryan Sykes in this book he named 7 "clan mothers" of all modern Europeans. (book published in 2001, and much water has gone under the materna bridge since then, and other researchers have now includedI, M., W, U4, U5, and W N. And of course now we have subclades.

In his book he names the 7 seven clan mother thus:

.Ursula: corresponds to Haplogroup U (specificall U5, and excludes its subgroup K.) "She lived about 20,000 years ago near the border of France and Spain

.Xenia, Corresponds to Haplogroup X, Lived about 25,000 years ago (a small number of her descendants went to Europe and the America's

. Helena: Corresponds to Haplogroup H, Her descendants are the most widespread, and lived about 20,000 years ago near the border of Spain and France

.Velda, Corresponds to Haplogroup V lived approx 15,00 years ago in the Iberian Peninsula. The Saami in Finland are descendants of a migration during the last ice age

.Tara: corresponds to Haplogroup T, lived about 17,000 years ago near the Mediterranean during the ice age

.Katrine: corresponds to Haplogroup K, lived about 15,000 years ago on the southern slopes of the Italian Alps.

.Jasmine: corresponds to Haplogroup J, lived in the Fertile Crescent during the European ice age. (This is not to be confused with y-dna J)

Bryan Sykes also traces back human migrations, regarding the "out of Africa theory". If interested in him, look him up on Google: Bryan Sykes MTDNA geneticist.

So, one can keep in "mind", that then, just as today, one women is not the "clan mother" of all persons born in a particular region in Europe etc. There are many of us "mothers" and daughters of Mitochondrial Eve, (still) around :smile:.

Melusine
 
Oops! I left out the latest on MTDNA H, which is about 40-50% of all tested Europeans to date.

Yahoo. mtdna haplogroup H wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_H_(mtDNA)


BTW: Bryan Sykes like Spencer Wells is not the only "Guru in the genetic world (anymore). However, to their credit, they both were pioneers in this field.

Melusine
 
My J Mitochondrial DNA is said that J should not be confused with Jasmine, then according to my results, what is the Eva in me?


Diferencias de HVR1 de CRS
16069T 16126C 16300G

...Diferencias de HVR2 de CRS
73G 185A 228A
263G 295T 315.1C
462T 489C 522-
523-
 
Carlitos said:
My J Mitochondrial DNA is said that J should not be confused with Jasmine, then according to my results, what is the Eva in me?


Diferencias de HVR1 de CRS
16069T 16126C 16300G

...Diferencias de HVR2 de CRS
73G 185A 228A
263G 295T 315.1C
462T 489C 522-
523-
Click to expand...

mtDNA J not to be confused with Y-DNA J!!! ;-)
 
^^

The clarification in parentheses in my case caused the confusion, then the woman Jasmine is in me.
 
Haplogroup H is likely to have originated in Southwest Asia/Middle East 25,000-30,000 YBP.

Subhaplogroup H1 encompasses an important fraction of Western European mtDNA, reaching its local peak among Basques (27.8%)

Taken from:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mtdna_haplogroup_h
 
The European Travelers, haplogroup J, emerged around 50,000 years ago in the Near East, not long after the first modern humans left Africa. About 10% of today's European population belongs to the European Travelers, although they did not arrive in Europe until the end of the last major ice age, about 10,000 years ago. This timing associates the European Travelers with the Neolithic or late Stone Age peoples, whose emergence is characterized by the rise of advanced farming and herding techniques.
 
why did bryan sykes exclude two other native european 'clan mothers' haplogroups i (iris) and w (wilma) in this book? he only mentions the european daughters of 'clan mother' R (rohani) apart from xenia. it seems a bit biased.
 
Today's news on MTDNA re: Titanic unknown child identified.

Published by the Journal of Forensic Science International. The idenity of unknown male child has now been identified via MTDNA tests with relative living in Wisconsin, USA. He was 2 year old Sydney Goodwin of England and died when the Titanic sank.


Source:
http://www.titanic-titanic.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8565

An article describing the genetic analysis is scheduled to be published in June 2011 issue of the journal Forensic Science Internaltional: Genetics

If this URL does not work: Google: Titanic's unknown child is finally ID'd ( new as of today).

BTW: did not start a new thread, because this article explains MTDNA

Melusine


From:
 
JT. Today it is believed that T (Tara) and J (Jasmine) came "together" in the Middle East and are the major players in the expansion of agriculture in Europe. Is also picking up more strongly that these groups brought the Indo-European languages ​​to the south and central Europe first, and later to the west and north.
 
7daughtersofeve.jpg


The clan of Ursula (Latin for she-bear) is the oldest of the seven native European clans. It was founded around 45,000 years ago by the first modern humans as they established themselves in Europe. Today, about 11% of modern Europeans are the direct maternal descendants of Ursula. They come from all parts of Europe, but the clan is particularly well represented in western Britain and Scandinavia.

The clan of Xenia (Greek for hospitable) is the second oldest of the seven native European clans, and also the smallest. It was founded 25,000 years ago by the second wave of modern humans who established themselves in Europe, just prior to the coldest part of the last Ice Age. Today only 6% of native Europeans are in the clan of Xenia. Within the clan, three distinct branches fan out over Europe. One is still largely confined to Eastern Europe while the other two have spread further to the West into central Europe and as far as France and Britain. About 1% of Native Americans are also in the clan of Xenia.

The clan of Helena (Greek for light) is by far the largest and most successful of the seven native clans with 41% of Europeans belonging to one of its many branches. It began 20,000 years ago with the birth of Helena somewhere in the valleys of the Dordogne and the Vezere, in south-central France. The clan is widespread throughout all parts of Europe, but reaches its highest frequency among the Basque people of northern Spain and southern France.

The clan of Velda (Scandinavian for ruler) is the second smallest of the seven clans containing only about 7% of native Europeans. Velda lived 17,000 years ago in the limestone hills of Cantabria in northwest Spain. Her descendants are found nowadays mainly in western and northern Europe and are surprisingly frequent among the Saami people of Finland and Northern Norway.

The clan of Tara (Gaelic for rocky hill) includes slightly fewer than 10% of modern Europeans. Its many branches are widely distributed throughout southern and western Europe with particularly high concentrations in Ireland and the west of Britain. Tara herself lived 17,000 years ago in the northwest of Italy among the hills of Tuscany and along the estuary of the river Arno.

The clan of Katrine (Greek for pure) is a medium sized clan with 10% of Europeans among its membership. Katrine herself lived 15,000 years ago in the wooded plains of northeast Italy, now flooded by the Adriatic, and among the southern foothills of the Alps. Her descendants are still there in numbers, but have also spread throughout central and northern Europe.

The clan of Jasmine (Persian for flower) is the second largest of the seven European clans after Helena and is the only one to have its origins outside Europe. Jasmine and her descendants, who now make up 12% of Europeans, were among the first farmers and brought the agricultural revolution to Europe from the Middle East around 8,500 years ago.

The clan mothers were not the only people alive at the time, of course, but they were main ones to have direct maternal european descendants surviving right through to the present day. The other women around, or their descendants, either had no children at all or had only sons, who could not pass on their mtDNA. And, of course, the clan mothers had ancestors themselves. Amazingly, their genealogies have also been discovered. They show how everyone alive on the planet today can trace their maternal ancestry back to just one woman. By all accounts, she lived in Africa about 150,000 – 200,000 years ago and is known as “Mitochondrial Eve”.

Source: https://lynnsfamilytree.com/sevendaughtersofeve.html
 
A bit outdated concerning regions of expansion, I think.
 
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