Genographic Project, The Genetic Journey, Haplogroup X

The genetic journey continues with the results. I belong to a haplogroup which is unique in that it spans the world in small enclaves, and has survived 30,000 years, meaning that each generation has seen a daughter born to a mother.

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[Salsassin]

The Solutrean hypothsis has been debunked. Haplotype X2a (What the Ojibwe have) is actually closer to Altaian Haplogroup X2 (In Siberia) than it is to any European type Haplogroup X2. THere are five unique mutations that characterize X2a. Only one of them has ever been found in an old world sample. That was one of the mutations which was found in Iran.

[bettacat]

Yes, and have you checked the Druze population? They have X, too.

Have you seed the documentary "First Canadians"? Yes, HapX is all over Europe, but in small pockets - and very nearly everywhere. We come in larger pockets in North America, The Orkney Islands, and in the Druze tribes.

In the end, the project outlines how we are all related through our ancestors. We simply developed different looks based on our geographic placement. Like flowers growing in the garden in full sun, or shade Think

[TheMidnightBell07]

Hey, excuse me if I sound really stupid but I want to know so I'm going to ask. Can a person have more than one Haplogroup?

[bettacat]

No question is stupid. Stupid is not asking the question.

No, no one can be more than one haplogroup. And sisters from the same mother are the same haplogroup. It passes directly from mother to daughter.

[sickbasterd123]

the haploogroup does the haplo group pass from mother to son

[bettacat]

yes, a son carries his mother's haplogroup in his genes, but he does not pass this onto any of his children. The hapX that is passed along in the semen is located mostly in the tail, which falls off and is discarded, and not necessary to complete reproduction. The newly fertilized egg is filled with the new mother's Haplogroup, not the father's mother's. But yes, men can trace their mother's haplogroup, that's why men are XY and women are XX - we get all our female genes from our mothers.

[steviewonder417]

@guiltytangent look again

[TheMelodyBear]

Exciting to find your channel! I am also X, but coming from the far NW of Europe. My maternal line has been traced 5 generations back to a woman named Elizabeth Barry who lived near Bath in Somerset, England. Her daughter Sarah Jane Millard came to Australia as a teenager, and I am her great-great-great grand daughter down the female line. One article I read suggests X is found as a higher % in Age of Migrations Vikings, including those settling in the Orkneys in the far north of Britain.

[MegaAstrodude]

@Salsassin,

The Solutrean hypothesis holds more plausible than ever because the studies that compared mitochondrial DNA in Altay people(Derenko et al)ignored several logical possibilities that involve the Altay people migrating to Siberia from Europe(Reidla et al) and the simple fact that the median graph's present very subjective parsimony estimates considering the low frequency of haplogroup X in the Altay people and the high frequency in both Basque and Ojibwe.

[guiltytangent]

@ne0nsurf solutrean HYPOTHESIS has been debunked already pal.

[ancientroyal1]

My great grandfather was a yaqui native,what haplogroupand percentage does that make me?

[kennedyjames007]

X2a (New World) is quite distinct from X2b, X2c, X2d, X2e, and X2f (Old World). X2a came to America such a long time ago, it doesn't really matter what route they took, but they likely came from central asia. The other X2 groups also came from there, but headed west towards europe. There are few X left in Asia but that is just because so many other people have covered that region since the X2.

[1mushaquit]

I learned more about Haplogroup X from your video than all the literature I have read. I am X as well.

Bruce

[Ladyknowinglydivine]

Wow, this is strange. My mtDNA is haplogroup X also. Decended from the Basque people of SPain thru my gre-great grandmother. Ironically, am also Sioux indian (father side)almost 2qtrs which also carry this haplogroup X. Strange very strange. Meaning that both of my sides of family knew each other and broke off from each other at some point very long ago.

[Ladyknowinglydivine]

Since I am female I can only trace my mothers mtDNA. Which is of the Basque people of Spain. People assume what they think I am. Yes, I am 2 qtrs sioux indian from my fathers side. But it's so strange how DNA depics who we are. Ironically, the sioux have haplogroup X which the Basque people also carry.

[themanishere4]

More on the Mongoloid Altaian people of Siberia; Since the frequency of haplogroup X in Russians is extremely low (3 of 336; Orekhov et al. 1999; Malyarchuk and Derenko 2000; authors unpublished data), the recent European admixture cannot explain the presence of haplogroup X in the Altaians. Hence, the results of the present study allow us to suggest that haplogroup X was the part of the ancestral gene pool for Altaian populations, being found both in northern and southern Altaians.