Motherline (mitochondrial DNA)
This my direct material heritage, passed from mother to child. Males can receive it, but not pass it on. It’s possible to trace it back to a common ancestor some 200,000 years ago (mitochondrial Eve), map migration routes that follow the mutations in the MtDNA and show its distribution around the world today.
My MtDNA Haplogroup is J and belongs to the Subclade: J2b1a on the DNA family tree.
The J group is believed to originate some 45,000 years ago in the western regions of Asia during the Ice Age. The very first carriers would have been hunter gathers living in harsh conditions facing fierce completion for scarce resources in the icy wastes of Western Asia. Scavenging whatever they could to survive, everything from wild mushrooms to Woolly Mammoth.
The J group rapidly split into many sub-groups becoming one of the most widely distributed in the world today. My sub-group J2 is believed to have split off some 37,000 years ago, subsequently migrating into Europe and the Middle East. Today some of the highest concentrations of this group can be found in Saudi Arabia 21%, England 20%, Wales 15%, Yemen 15%, Iran 14%, Iraq 13%, Ireland 11% and Scotland 9%.
My MtDNA Haplogroup is J and belongs to the Subclade: J2b1a on the DNA family tree.
The J group is believed to originate some 45,000 years ago in the western regions of Asia during the Ice Age. The very first carriers would have been hunter gathers living in harsh conditions facing fierce completion for scarce resources in the icy wastes of Western Asia. Scavenging whatever they could to survive, everything from wild mushrooms to Woolly Mammoth.
The J group rapidly split into many sub-groups becoming one of the most widely distributed in the world today. My sub-group J2 is believed to have split off some 37,000 years ago, subsequently migrating into Europe and the Middle East. Today some of the highest concentrations of this group can be found in Saudi Arabia 21%, England 20%, Wales 15%, Yemen 15%, Iran 14%, Iraq 13%, Ireland 11% and Scotland 9%.