Jeg fikk nettopp resultatene mine fra National Genographic project, og ble mildt sagt overrasket over det de hadde funnet ut. Tydeligvis så tilhører jeg haplogruppe Q, som bare har en frekvens på 4 % i Norge. Jeg testet Y-kromosomet, altså farsida mi, og ettersom det er en frekvens på 7 % av den samme haplogruppa på Island regner jeg med at slekta mi på farsida må gå tilbake til minst ca. 870. i Norge, siden Island ble bosatt i samme perioden.
Er dette litt søkt, eller høres det sannsynlig ut? Jeg har lest en del på nettsida til David Faux, og dette har han å si om haplogruppa mi:
…this haplotype is, considering the pattern of matches, doubtless Norse Viking. The DNA evidence supports the family tradition. The haplogroup is very rare, and not found (to date) anywhere but the above mentioned locations (not Mainland Scotland). While there is little doubt that at the time of the Viking occupation of Shetland circa 800AD the HAY ancestor was residing in Norway, the ancient origins are not European. Haplogroup Q is only found among Central and East Asians as well as Native Americans. A Central Asian origin seems most likely, especially considering that in one classic study of Icelandic Y chromosomes, 7% were Q. There has never been any suggestion of any Greenland Inuit presence in Iceland, but the Edda sagas give Asia as the ancestral homeland of a substantial contingent of the Norse in pre – Viking times.
Kilde: http://www.davidkfaux.org/shetlandislandsYdataH1.html
Videre så fant jeg et annet interessant utsagn fra samme fyren:
Q (Hg1, Eu40) This is one unequivocal Norse signature that has only recently been recognized as such – since Q is typically found only in those from Eastern Asia or North America. The Project Administrator was alerted to the probability of finding Q in the present work since in one unpublished study of Shetland haplotypes, the researchers found a relatively large number (just under 10%) of participants with haplogroup Q – the same percentage seen with the much more common Norse I haplogroup.
Typically those with a Q haplotype will have matches in Iceland, Norway, the Faroe Islands with Orkney showing a much smaller percentage. The Norwegian Q is very rare there (about 1%) and found more frequently in the north of the country than in the south. The only reason that the present work is able to identify Q is the Haplogroup Database of FTDNA which shows each participant’s matches, which have been SNP tested to show haplogroup, by country.
There has been no scientific investigation of the Norse Q. In Helgason’s article on the haplotypes of Iceland, there are 13 of the 181 samples which are labelled R1b – Branch A, but which are actually Q. Thus slightly less than 1% of this Icelandic sample were Q – similar to Norway. A reasonable estimate for Shetland would be about 4%, making it likely that due to the “founder effect” Shetland has more Q percentage – wise than other Norse communities.
Kilde: http://www.davidkfaux.org/shetlandhaplogroupR1a.html
Til slutt:
In the Old World, the Q lineage and its many branches is largely found within a huge triangle defined by Norway in the west, the Iranian plateau in the south, and northern China in the east. It has also been detected in Yemenite Jews, Algerians, Lebanese, Turks, Indians, Sri Lankans, and Vietnamese. The frequency of Q in Norway and northern China is about 4%...
Kilde: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_Q_%28Y-DNA%29
Hva vet dere om denne gruppa? Er dette en pålitelig kilde? Jeg fikk for øvrig rede på at jeg tilhører "Q1" når jeg fikk overført resultatene til Family Tree DNA. Veldig spennende saker!
