Ashkenazi mtDNA haplogroups ( percentages )

[Melnorme]

Calculated from the supplementary data of the Behar et al. study, which is available at my Archive :

A - 0.1
H - 20.3
HV* - 2.1
HV1 - 3.8
I - 0.8
J* - 1.0
J1 - 6.5
J2 - 0.5
K - 32.0
L2a - 1.7
M* - 0.7
M1 - 1.0
N* - 0.1
N1b - 10.0
N9a - 0.1
preHV1 - 2.4
preHV2 - 0.1
T* - 1.0
T1 - 0.8
T2 - 1.4
T3 - 0.1
T4 - 0.7
T5 - 0.5
U1b - 0.7
U2e - 0.3
U3 - 0.3
U4 - 0.1
U5* - 0.1
U5a1* - 0.7
U5b* - 1.4
U6a* - 0.1
U6a1 - 0.1
U7 - 1.4
V - 2.8
W - 1.4
X - 1.0

I've rounded the results, so it might not add up to 100%. Or maybe I made a mistake ( hope not ).

[Graeme]

You should link this with your conversion thread and explain the ones not in the list.

[Melnorme]

Graeme said:

You should link this with your conversion thread and explain the ones not in the list.

The conversion thread is about Y-chromosomes, not mtDNA.

[Graeme]

Sorry, even satanic majestys get tired. It is 2:30 am here.

Well how about a conversion list of mtDNA haplogroups.

[Melnorme]

Graeme said:

Sorry, even satanic majestys get tired. It is 2:30 am here.

Well how about a conversion list of mtDNA haplogroups.

It's not necessary.
I think mtDNA haplogroup terminology is more standardized, and has been for a longer time than Y-chromosome polymorphisms - for the past 4-5 years at least.

More haplogroups have been discovered over the years, but they've been integrated within the existing labelling system, rather than facilitating a complete change.

[Valery]

It's a really uncommon mt profile although Ashkenazis are N.Europeans: H at frequency 20%, high preHVs and HVs, "neolithic" T1 and J are rare. I expected about 8-10% T, but real frequency is extremely low! It means that I have no close maternal relatives among european Jews (I belong to T1)

[Melnorme]

Valery said:

It's a really uncommon mt profile although Ashkenazis are N.Europeans: H at frequency 20%, high preHVs and HVs, "neolithic" T1 and J are rare. I expected about 8-10% T, but real frequency is extremely low! It means that I haven't close maternal relatives among european Jews (I belong to T1)

The most unusual thing is the ultra-high frequency of K, which is apparently a haplogroup with a pan-Caucasoid distribution, but not found in such large amounts in any region.

[Valery]

>The most unusual thing is the ultra-high frequency of K, which is apparently a haplogroup with a pan-Caucasoid distribution, but not found in such large amounts in any region.

A subtle detail: all I wrote is about Jews as NE population, regardless of what H is replaced with.

[Valery]

It's a big advantage for pedigree tracing to have rare mitotype.

Jewish DNA success story

allbell.tripod.com/minsk.html

From Kerchner mt log:
www.kerchner.com/mtdnalog2003.htm

Testing Company Used: FamilyTreeDNA
HVR1 MtDNA Results: 16111T, 16223T, 16235G, 16362C, 16519C
MtDNA Haplogroup per HVR1 Results: M*
HVR2 MtDNA Test Results: 73G, 263G, 315.1C, 489C
Date MtDNA Test Was Ordered: October 2000
Comments: First definite matrilineal ancestor: Sima Rozovskij (married name: Dobrin or Dobrinsky), born about 1850 in Bragin or Loev in southeastern Belarus (near Chernobyl). Died: ? Sima was the daughter of Ephraim Rozovsky (long-distance coach driver, klezmer musician, red hair. Maybe had relatives in the timber trade. Seems to have been Israelite, rather than Cohen, but maybe he was actually Cohen.). Sima's mother was either Ephraim's wife Bertha (Beila?) or Ephraim's wife Etel, daughter of Shlioma, born 1813. Two people with exact matches (HVR1 and HVR2) say their earliest matrilineal ancestors were born in Skapiskis, Lithuania, and Lyubcha, Belarus (near Novogorodok).

FamilyTreeDNA assigned M* haplogroup, but without RFLP result is ambiguous. It can be L3.