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 (January 2010) R1b1b2a1b3 in the tree used by Family Tree DNA and R1b1b2a1a2c in the ISOGG 2010 tree (see http://www.isogg.org/tree/ISOGG_HapgrpR.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.
L176.2 is a new mutation discovered in FTDNA's own research lab. Nothing is known yet about its geographical distribution and anyone who has a L176.2+ result (whether also SRY2627+ or not) is encouraged to join this Project to help investigate its origins, history and relevance to genetic genealogy.