Group Administrator:
Gareth Henson - Email:
henson.dna@breathe.com
- Email:
didier.vernade@yahoo.fr
Project Background
SRY2627 (also known as M167) was one of the first Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) discovered in the human Y chromosome.
It is now known to denote a subgroup of haplogroup R1b1b - the most common haplogroup in Western Europe. The subgroup was formerly known as R1b1c6 and is currently (March 09) R1b1b2a1b3 in the tree used by Family Tree DNA and the ISOGG 2008 tree (see http://www.isogg.org/tree/ISOGG_HapgrpR08.html). It is not a large subgroup of R1b1b, but it is found particularly in places where R1b1b is very common - Iberia (especially the north and west i.e. the Basque Country and Catalunya), south western France and up the Atlantic coast to England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland.