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R-L159+

Group Administrator: Neal Downing - Email: jarl.downing@gmail.com

Project Surnames

Adams, Ainsworth, Anderson, Armstrong, Baldwin, Beatty, Black, Bradley, Brock, Bronk, Burns, Byrnes, Calvert, Cameron, Carmack, Carson, Cotton, Coyle, Dalton, D'Arcy, Davidson, Deaton, Dillon, Dixon, Donnell, Doty, Doughty, Downing, Doyle, Duoos, Elliott, Ferguson, Fields, Fleming, Flynn, Gaston, Gatlin, Graham, Green, Hamilton, Harrington, Herrington, Hudson, Irvine, Jewett, Johnson, Jordan, Kavanaugh, Kerr, Kinsella, Kinsley, Leatham, Lumsden, Lyles, MacCabe, MacDonald, MacKenzie, Mackie, MacLachlan, MacPherson, MacSween, Manning, Matheson, McCabe, McCain, McCauley, McDaniel, McFarren, McKean, McKeane, McKee, McLaughlin, McQueen, Monroe, Morrison, Nelson, Nicholson, Nicol, Nugent, O'Connor, Oden, Ohl, O'Toole, Owen, Pendergrass, Plummer, Queen, Quilliam, Rankin, Rennie, Richardson, Robertson, Robinson, Rosenburg, Ryan, Schneider, Shaw, Shingleton, Sims, Singleton, Spence, Stewart, Swinton, Tharpe, Thompson, Van Cleave, Welsh, Weymouth, Wilson, Yarbrough

Project Background

In August 2009, results for one of the R1b-L21 Walk-on-the-Y (WTY) participants revealed a new SNP present in some L21+ men: L159.2. This SNP is a parallel mutation that exists also within Haplogroup I2a.

This project has three subgroups:

- L159+ and 2C2G on 464X


- L159+ and 3C1G on 464X


- L159+ and has not yet tested for 464X


There seems to be a correlation between L159 status and having two C alleles and two G alleles on DYS464X. The modal for R1b1b2 is CCCG. This further supports L159's status as an indicator of shared ancestry.

For more information on the L21 project -
http://www.familytreedna.com/public/R-L21/default.aspx


For more information on the 464x project -
http://www.familytreedna.com/public/DYS464x%20ccgg/default.aspx