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The standard FTDNA reports for STRs and SNPs can be seen under the DNA Results tab at top left.
Phylogenetic (TMRCA) Trees...
Showing the TMRCA (Time to Most Recent Common male Ancestor) of our members.
TMRCA Tree (groups expanded)
TMRCA table
Genetic Distance table
All other Haplotypes:
older TMRCA Tree
TMRCA table
Genetic Distance table
Bruce surname frequency and populations...
This data was sourced about 2019 from...
Populations: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_population
Top 10 Bruce frequencies by Country: http://worldnames.publicprofiler.org
Frequency for the 'rest of the world' is guestimated at 0.5 per million.
Current project member count is roughly 0.2% of the global Bruce population.
updated 9 Jan 2022
Phylogenetic (TMRCA) Trees...
Showing the TMRCA (Time to Most Recent Common male Ancestor) of our members.
Branch lengths show the relative TMRCA between members, and between groups of members.
McGee's Y-111 tool was used with FTDNA mutation rates, Hybid model, 75% probability
Click on thumbnails to see the full sized images.
Haplotype M269 (about 75% of our membership):
M269 section is over a year old ... new members not shown and some groupnames have changed
TMRCA Tree (groups compressed to show inter-group relationships)TMRCA Tree (groups expanded)
TMRCA table
Genetic Distance table
All other Haplotypes:
These section been updated
Latest TMRCA Tree
older TMRCA Tree
TMRCA table
Genetic Distance table
| Country | Population | Freq per mill | No Bruce |
| Australia | 23784200 | 472.6 | 11240 |
| New Zealand | 4569840 | 431.7 | 1973 |
| UK |
64105654 | 407.1 | 26100 |
| Canada | 35675834 | 396.1 | 14131 |
| US |
320637000 | 203.1 | 65134 |
| Sweden | 9753627 | 53.1 | 518 |
| Ireland | 4609600 | 36.7 | 169 |
| Norway | 5165802 | 16.7 | 86 |
| Switzerland | 8211700 | 7.7 | 63 |
| Denmark | 5659715 | 7.3 | 41 |
| Rest of world | 6747827028 | 0.5 | 3374 |
| Global Totals | 7230000000 | 17.0 | 122829 |
This data was sourced about 2019 from...
Populations: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_and_dependencies_by_population
Top 10 Bruce frequencies by Country: http://worldnames.publicprofiler.org
Frequency for the 'rest of the world' is guestimated at 0.5 per million.
Current project member count is roughly 0.2% of the global Bruce population.
It seems that Monty Python was correct about Bruce!