R1a-L448 rolls of the tongue a bit easier :-)
On 6/14/2013 11:54 PM, ancestr2_at_host187.hostmonster.com wrote:
> http://www.isogg.org/tree/ISOGG_HapgrpR.html
>
> L448 makes us R1a1a1b1a3a :(
>
> -Michael
>
>> My test results for the L448 SNP are *finally* in and I *do* have it!
>> FTDNA has *not* changed the haplogroup. However. I suspect they will want
>> all the upstream markers tested before they change it. At $40 a pop, I
>> might as well wait until I can afford the $200 gen2.0 test which, as I
>> presently understand it, includes all the latest commercially available
>> SNPs. (Well...I've just ordered M417 from FTDNA so as to make the R1a1a1
>> distinction official.)
>>
>> SNP, by the way, stands for Single Nucleotide Polymorphism--a single
>> location in our DNA that has changed from one value to another. SNPs on
>> the Y chromosome can be thousands, if not tens of thousands, years old.
>> The SNPs, rather than the STRs that many of us tested, define a halogroup.
>> It's simply that certain SNPs are found to be closely associated with STRs
>> (Short Tandem Repeats), which are those strings of chemicals that are fast
>> mutating, which make them good for judging relationships in the last 15
>> generations.
>>
>> Here's a map of the R1a1a1 subclade, generated just last month. L448 is
>> pretty much middle, center. There are now a number of known subclades
>> under it. I'm guessing we may test down to at least L176. But I'll do some
>> reading (or decide on the gen2.0 test) before proceeding.
>>
>> http://www.familytreedna.com/public/R1a,R1a/default.aspx?section=news
>>
>> L448 is about 2300 years old. That's getting us into the historic period.
>>
>> In other news...
>>
>> Every now and then I contact a Cooley DNA Project member who hasn't
>> entered their most recently known Cooley ancestor. I exchanged emails
>> today with kit #99728. He's a descendant of the Peter Cooley who
>> immigrated with his family in 1774 as indentured servants. He's haplogroup
>> E1b1b1, which is nothing like ours.
>>
>> And test results for the descendant of John Cooley of Franklin County have
>> come in. He matches to the Halifax County Cooleys! Either his genealogy is
>> wrong or that line goes back at least one or more generations.
>>
>> http://www.familytreedna.com/public/Cooley/default.aspx?section=yresults
>>
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Received on Sat Jun 15 2013 - 15:00:44 MDT