Advanced DNA Tests
Family Tree DNA has now made some new advanced DNA tests available to existing customers. Soon, new customers will be able to order them, too.You will now see two options when you go to the "Order...
View Article100th Member
The Italy DNA Project is pleased to welcome it's 100th member!We are excited that the project continues to grow, and that Italy's tremendous diversity is beginning to show through in the haplotypes of...
View ArticleWhich DNA Test to Order?
One of the first decisions that someone new to genetic genealogy must make is which DNA test to order.If you are primarily interested in your maternal line, then I have no problem recommending the...
View ArticleAre Italians underrepresented in DNA testing?
Are Americans of Italian descent underrepresented in genealogical DNA testing? I think the answer is yes.To derive this conclusion, I examined ySearch, the largest public-access y-DNA database. As of...
View ArticleDiagnostic Markers in Haplogroup G
We have a number of participants, some recently joined, that are in y-DNA haplogroup G or G2. I encourage these folks to check out an article by Phillip G. Goff and T. Whit Athey entitled "Diagnostic...
View ArticleEastern I1* and R1b1b
One of the benefits of a project geographic project like this one is that occasionally we stumble across an interesting haplotype or two.As I write this, we have just over 90 Italian y-chromosomes in...
View ArticlePeer Review and SNP discovery
Yesterday, I encouraged folks who have a haplotype that resembles what I am calling "Eastern I1" and/or who have tested P38+ but are negative for downstream SNPs to engage Ethnoancestry to test EA's...
View Article[DNA-ANTHROGENEALOGY]
If you are not already a member of the DNA-ANTHROGENEALOGY Yahoo! group, then I encourage you to check it out. It is very informative, with spirited discussion.A recent thread involving the genetic...
View ArticleWhat's With The Ads?
We are experimenting with the addition of advertisements on the blog. You'll notice them on the right side of the page, at the bottom of the sidebar.This space was empty before, so I thought I'd try to...
View ArticlePopulation Structure in the Mediterranean
A paper by Capelli et al. entitled "Population Structure in the Mediterranean Basin: A Y Chromosome Perspective" was published in March by the Annals of Human Genetics.The authors identified four...
View Article150th Member
Over the weekend, we reached 150 participants!We currently have 106 Y-DNA participants and 56 mtDNA participants.
View ArticleEarly Ethnic Italy
Last night I was Googling around and I found a really cool map of early Italy on the National Geographic website. If you click the link at the bottom of the page, you can download a higher resolution...
View ArticleA Little Housekeeping
Over the weekend, I refined the subgrouping on the Y-DNA results page.I added a grouping for R1b1c and split the grouping for J2 into J2a and J2b. This makes the size of each grouping much more...
View ArticleWhat do we know about R1b1b?
One of the interesting things about a project like the Italy DNA Project is that we occasionally turn up some interesting data. Because of Italy's geographic and historical position, we occasionally...
View ArticlemtDNA 15497 G/A Polymorphism
A recent paper from Liquori et al., The mtDNA 15497 G/A polymorphism in cytochrome b in severe obese subjects from Southern Italy, looked atwhether the 15497 G/A mtDNA polymorphism (G251S) in the...
View ArticleHaplogroup J2a1 Origins in Greece?
I have been slow to link to Dienekes Anthropology Blog, largely because some of religious and racial views that occassionally crop up there. Nonetheless, Dienekes does a great job of keeping up with...
View ArticleHaplogroup R2
At the moment, one of the least common y-chromosome haplogroups in the Italy DNA Project is haplogroup R2.This haplogroup has been in the spotlight a little bit recently, due to a paper by Sengupta et...
View ArticleThe Cimbri in Northern Italy
The Cimbri were a Germanic and/or Celtic tribe that attacked the Roman Empire, but were defeated in 101 BC at the Battle of Vercellae. Some accounts suggest that the Cimbri, including women and...
View ArticleTwo Hundred Members!
This week the Italy DNA Project hit a new milestone with the addition of our 200th participant. As I write this, the project has over 140 Y-DNA participants and 68 mtDNA participants! It seems like...
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R1b in Italy
In Italy, the most common y-haplogroup is R1b. It accounts for 35% of the members of the Italy DNA Project and about 40% of the total Italian population.As you can see in the map on the left, it is...
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mtDNA Haplogroup U3
Because of the tremendous genetic diversity in Italy, our project sometimes accumulates a group of folks that would be hard to find elsewhere.One example is the proportion of mtDNA haplogroup U3 in our...
View ArticleNear Eastern Origin of Etruscans
The New York Times has published a very decent summary of several recent studies on the genetic origin of the Etruscans. Several recent papers, including one using mtDNA from cattle breeds, have...
View ArticleWhat a difference a year makes
What a difference a year makes.Less than a year ago, the Italy DNA Project had 100 members. Over the past week, we have surpassed the 300 member mark. As I've done when we passed milestones in the past...
View ArticleWhat a difference a year makes. Part Two.
Here is a chart showing the mtDNA haplogroup breakdown of the current Italy DNA Project participants. We now have a total of 116 mtDNA results fo.HaplogroupCount of Haplogroups in Italy DNA...
View ArticlePalindromic Testing for ht35 Haplotypes
I've written before about my suspicions that a significant portion of the R1b1c in Italy may be an "eastern" variant of R1b1c called ht35. In short summary, the notion is that R1b1c originally arose...
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