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Haplogroup Analysis
To
understand what a haplogroup is, you will need a few
definitions. The first would be for the term marker. A
genetic marker is synonymous with locus, polymorphism,
genotypes, and alleles but they all refer to a specific
location in your genetic code that has been found by
researchers to exhibit different variable DNA types in the population.
For example, 30% of the population may have the DNA type
"12" and 2% may have an "11".
When a group of
genetic markers are tested on the same chromosome it is
termed a haplotype. If we test 16 markers on the
Y-chromosome, the haplotype might be "10, 11, 15, 22,
17, 11, 14, 17, 22.2, 9, 15, 13, 12, 16, 12, 18".
This profile was the same as your father and his father
before him.
Once we have determined your haplotype we can perform a
statistical comparison to many people that have been
tested to determine your most likely haplogroup
Haplogroups of the World
Researchers have
tested thousands of people from around the world at the
same markers that we test to determine their haplotypes.
The patterns that are exhibited can be grouped together
and information about the origins of that group of
individuals can be surmised from the consistency of the
pattern.
What is
my haplogroup?
Determining your haplogroup can
unlock the door to a vast amount of online information
about your group.
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