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From: ellen Levy <>
Subject: J2 HG in Scotland
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2004 13:37:32 -0700 (PDT)


Doug & List:

I think your questions are important, Doug. Could a
sub-set of haplogroup R1a have originated in the Altai
region and then migrated to Scandinavia without
leaving a significant Central Asian migration pattern
through DNA evidence as it moved? Is there any such
DNA trail? Or could there be convergent evolution in
haplotypes between these two areas?

I'm not able to tell the differences in haplotypes
between Transcaucasian, Middle Eastern, Eastern
European and Ashkenazi Levite R1a. Perhaps there is a
difference between Scandinavian R1a from these groups,
and Scandinavian results more closely match those
haplotypes found in Central Asia. Or perhaps all
these groups migrated out from the Black Sea area,
home of R1a, with one group going East into Asia and
another north and west up to Scandinavia? Then a
different sub-set of the same population (but
possessing slightly different haplotype) moved into
Eastern Europe? I think I need to know a lot more
about the haplotypes occuring in Eastern Europe and in
Russia in particular to see any patterns, should any
pattern exist.

Your comment about the Russia Arctic raises lots of
interesting questions. What kind of R1a haplotypes
are occuring there, and do they match Scandinavians?

Interesting to ponder, but all conjecture at this
point. Also, could it be that some of these
populations retained a more "archaic" form of
haplotypes, more similar to the original founder
population, rather than haplotypes appearing because
of migrations from one region of the world to another?


Ellen Coffman

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