St Delcambre
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- Ethnic group
- French (Nord region) ancestry
- Y-DNA haplogroup
- I1a3a1c
- mtDNA haplogroup
- U2e1a
Greetings board members. First, I'd like to thank all those involved who contribute to the board with interesting reading material and explanations that attempt to provide members such as myself with a basic understanding.
In this thread I'm going to request a few of those explanations from you so that I can better understand my personal results. I recently received my Y-DNA Haplogroup results and I have so many questions that I'm honestly not quite sure where to begin. I apologize if the following questions are excessively rudimentary but my basic understanding is very limited so I'd rather ask those knowledgeable in the topic at hand rather than draw up uneducated "understandings" of my own. (By the way, I am from The United States tracing back my family origins to the Nord Department of France. My predicted Haplogroup based upon my results is I1). Without further adieu:
1) How accurate is the twenty marker test in predicting my Haplogroup? From what I understand tests vary anywhere from 10-67 STR tested. Should I have tested more than twenty markers in order to achieve a more accurate result?
2) Are the marker results I've received unique only to my Haplogroup (I1) or just most frequently found in my Haplogroup (I1)?
3) How much in common genetically do I actually have with other people bearing my Haplogroup (I1)? Are there any concrete traits people with a common Haplogroup share? More susceptible to a certain disease? More resilient to a disorder? etc...
4) I've compared my results to the "Nordveldt Haplogroups" (first basic search I stumbled upon) and found all the markers I'm seeing in my results are consistent with his Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Ultra Norse models except for three, which leads me to ask you a very informal "what in the heck are GATA H4-11, YCAlla-19, and YCAllb-21?"
5) How broad is I1? How much further can it broken down (if at all)? If more specific testing results are available in "narrowing down the field" what should my next course of action be?
Once again, thank you. I'm a bit out of my element here, so any answers helping me to come to a better understanding will be most appreciated.
Also, please be merciful towards any typographical errors. :grin:
In this thread I'm going to request a few of those explanations from you so that I can better understand my personal results. I recently received my Y-DNA Haplogroup results and I have so many questions that I'm honestly not quite sure where to begin. I apologize if the following questions are excessively rudimentary but my basic understanding is very limited so I'd rather ask those knowledgeable in the topic at hand rather than draw up uneducated "understandings" of my own. (By the way, I am from The United States tracing back my family origins to the Nord Department of France. My predicted Haplogroup based upon my results is I1). Without further adieu:
1) How accurate is the twenty marker test in predicting my Haplogroup? From what I understand tests vary anywhere from 10-67 STR tested. Should I have tested more than twenty markers in order to achieve a more accurate result?
2) Are the marker results I've received unique only to my Haplogroup (I1) or just most frequently found in my Haplogroup (I1)?
3) How much in common genetically do I actually have with other people bearing my Haplogroup (I1)? Are there any concrete traits people with a common Haplogroup share? More susceptible to a certain disease? More resilient to a disorder? etc...
4) I've compared my results to the "Nordveldt Haplogroups" (first basic search I stumbled upon) and found all the markers I'm seeing in my results are consistent with his Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Ultra Norse models except for three, which leads me to ask you a very informal "what in the heck are GATA H4-11, YCAlla-19, and YCAllb-21?"
5) How broad is I1? How much further can it broken down (if at all)? If more specific testing results are available in "narrowing down the field" what should my next course of action be?
Once again, thank you. I'm a bit out of my element here, so any answers helping me to come to a better understanding will be most appreciated.
Also, please be merciful towards any typographical errors. :grin: