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June 26, 2006

Genographic Results: Haplogroup J2

It's confirmed y'all. I'm mishpacha. Haplogroup J2 common amongst the worlds semestic peoples.

Here's some of the good poop from the report:

Your Y-chromosome results identify you as a member of haplogroup J2.

The genetic markers that define your ancestral history reach back roughly 60,000 
years to the first common marker of all non-African men, M168, and follow your 
lineage to present day, ending with M172, the defining marker of haplogroup J2.

If you look at the map highlighting your ancestors' route, you will see that members
 of haplogroup J2 carry the following Y-chromosome markers:

M168 — M89 — M304 — M172

Today, descendants of this line appear in the highest frequencies in the Middle East,
 North Africa, and Ethiopia, and at a much lower frequency in Europe, where it is 
observed exclusively in the Mediterranean area. Approximately 20 percent of the
 males in southern Italy carry the marker, along with 10 percent of men in southern 
Spain. 

[...]

M168: Your Earliest Ancestor
Time of Emergence: Roughly 50,000 years ago
Place of Origin: Africa 
Climate: Temporary retreat of Ice Age; Africa moves from drought to warmer temperatures and moister conditions
Estimated Number of Homo sapiens: Approximately 10,000 

[...]

M89: Moving Through the Middle East
Time of Emergence: 45,000 years ago
Place: Northern Africa or the Middle East
Climate: Middle East: Semi-arid grass plains
Estimated Number of Homo sapiens: Tens of thousands

[...]

M304: The Spread of Agriculture
Time of Emergence:15,000 to 10,000 years ago
Place of origin: Fertile Crescent
Climate: Ice Age ending
Estimated Number of Homo sapiens: Millions
Language: Unknown—earliest evidence of modern language families 

[...]

M172: Toward the Mediterranean
Time of Emergence: 10,000 years ago
Place of Origin: Fertile Crescent
Climate: Ice Age ending
Estimated Number of Homo sapiens: A few million
Language: Unknown
Tools and Skills: Neolithic 
Your ancestors left a physical footprint that matches their genetic journey
 Artifacts from ancient towns such as Jericho, also known as Tell el-Sultan,
 a site close to present day Jerusalem, provide evidence of permanent human
settlements to around 8500 B.C. The sites also suggest the transition from 
hunter-gatherer to settled life occurred relatively suddenly.

The M172 marker defines a major subset of haplogroup J, which arose from 
the M89 lineage. It is found today in North Africa, the Middle East, and southern
 Europe. In southern Italy it occurs at frequencies of 20 percent, and in 
southern Spain, 10 percent of the population carries this marker. Both
 haplogroup J and its subgroup J2 are found at a combined frequency of
 around 30 percent amongst Jewish individuals. 

This more or less confirms the family lore that our ancestors emerged out of Israel, passed along Northern Africa, and up to Spain before being kicked out during the Spanish Inquisition only to try and make it back towards Israel to be re-settled in Syria before coming to the Americas.

This makes me want to try and find the rumored Mexican contingent of the Husney (Hosni) family even more!

To all with $99 of expendible cash, I can say I recommend the Genographic Project. Sure it takes six months and only gives your ancestry to within an estimated 10,000 years ago but its still good fun to know how far your ancestors came to bring you in front of that computer monitor today :)

Posted by jordanh at June 26, 2006 11:44 PM

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