I have written two Blogs recently on my mtDNA. Currently my official Haplogroup at FTDNA is H5’36, but that will be changing. At YFull, my Haplogroup is H5’36e:
If I interpret YFull correctly, the SNP that defines H5’36e is G4092A. However, this screen shows that H5’36e has an additional SNP:
From this, I take it that C456T defines H5’36.
A Cool Screen at YFull
I like this one:
This is called MTree matches on the MReport. The interesting thing is that it appears to trace my line and my mother’s line back all the way to genetic Eve. Here is a closer view:
I don’t know what the different colors mean. There are green, red and grey SNPs.
Here is what SNP Tracker shows:
Here is some more information from SNP Tracker:
This shows the ancient 9,760 years before present for the most recent common ancestor for H5’36. According to YFull, this was reduced to 1850 years before present for H5’36e. It is also amazing how few mutations it takes to get from 155,000 years ago to 9,760 years ago. It looks like there were about 62 mutations. That appears to be about one mutation about every 2,000 years. That would make mtDNA not very useful for genealogical purposes. Also that would make the TMRCA date of 1850 years ago make sense.
What’s Next?
I expect that there will be branching under the present H5’36 which I thought would be H5’248, but now I see it is not:
Apparently H5’36 was replaced with H5’248 which now has been replaced by H5’388’449’450. I guess there is a lot going on in this part of the mtDNA world. I’m watching you FTDNA. The good news is that this shows progress in my part of the mtDNA tree. This seems like an awkward designation. Let’s see what is upstream of H5’388’449’450.
This goes right back to plain H.
This shows 4 named and 11 unnamed lineages from H5’388’449’450 if I am reading it correctly. I know that I am not H5, so that means that I must be H388’449, H450 or H5’388’449’450+4092. From a previous Blog, I see this from the FTDN site:
My take from this screen is that 4092 is an unnamed SNP as just a position is given. [However, see below.]
T310TC!! and G4092A
When I search for G4092A at mitomap.org, I see this:
Apparently, this is at location 4092 which is one of the lineages mentioned at FTDNA: H5’388’449’450+4092. That could mean that I am in the branch with the long name.
Here is something I note from FTDNA:
I assume that !! indicates a double back mutation. I could see where this could be problematic – especially as it occurs at the end of the line. What I would be interested in knowing is whether these two SNPs go together or if they might represent two separate branches on the mtDNA tree.
H5’388’449’450+4092
I am going to go out on a limb and assume that this is my new Haplogroup:
This shows the Imperial Age (100 CE) which seems consitent with YFull. Also, it looks like Ireland has the most chance of where the ancestors came from on the face of it.
I know that my female ancestor line goes back to England. Could that be my English flag? I do not know what F8638614 is – perhaps an initial grouping?
I see no British flag under H388’449:
However, I do see additional branching.
Here is H450:
Again, no UK. This tends to confirm that I belong in H5’388’449’450+4092.
Summary and Conclusions
- My intention in writing this third Blog on mtDNA was to tie up any loose ends I may have missed before FTDNA comes out with the new H branch of mtDNA
- While doing this I came upon an update of FTDNA’s MitoTree which gave me the new name of my current branch and gave a hint as to what my new Branch name would be
- Further snooping around shows that I would likely be in the long-named H5’388’449’450+4092
- Along the way, I learned quite a bit about mtDNA. I had heard recently about back mutations in mtDNA, but looking at my own makes it more real.
- I appreciate FTDNA updating their mtDNA tree and am looking forward to further updates.