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Jewish_Q -- YDNA Haplogroup Q1b of European Descent

Results

When we first started we were bewildered men of northern European descent most of us with a Jewish heritage who were members of Haplogroup Q. If we paid the extra money and had our SNPs tested we found that in addition to the M242 SNP that put us into Haplogroup Q we also had SNP P36.2 which put us into subgroup H1* but this was pretty much meaningless for us.

Behar and others published a scientific paper January 2004 found 5.22% of Ashkenazi Jewish men to have the P36 marker (a SNP downstream from M242 and upstream from M378) whereas among the non-Jewish neighbors there was only 0.3% had this SNP.

They have now found another SNP that is more exclusive to our group and that is M378 which puts us into Q1b. We are now in a much smaller group.