Hello Melissa, Judy & Dean, I am new here and am very interested in your posts. I am in the same position of having a family history that specifies my...
Could there be some clues here? The ‘Lost Colony’ of Roanoke Island, NC These family names were introduced to the Cherokees of North Carolina between 1580...
I had a cousin of mine tell me that her father had his mtDNA tested at Ancestry and was reported as hg J. She said that the results included a mutation at 152...
Thanks, Hannah! That sounds like a very interesting book. I have long been fascinated by the strange stories surrounding Jamestown and Roanoke. In my family...
So it seems to me that one of the Roanoke Island lost colony women may have married a Cherokee from that area of NC and their children may then have been ...
Hello all, I , too, had the American Indian mtDNA test to validate my maternal Cherokee heritage despite my blue eyes. Very surprised to discover it is in the...
Hi all, I am a newbie from São Paulo, Brazil. My MtDNA tested J*: 16069T, 16026C, 16298C. Not familiar yet with this terminology... My mother's family comes...
Ive been reading the posts' for some history on Cherokee and the chance there has been some belonging to 'J' group. I was looking for further info on this. My...
There are some that believe that some Hebrews made it across the Atlantic after the destruction of the temple in 70 AD. There was a stone found near Knoxville...
Marcos: Wait until you HVR2 results are in before we try to do and significant analysis. HVR1 is simply not enough for the J haplogroup. I am currently on...
Would it be fair to assume the possibility that certain genetic compositions- passed on by the mother where represented by mtdna- mutate at a slower rate than...
If all familial offspring tend to mutate at approximateley the same rate, perhaps as a consequence of nongenetic changes that are, nonetheless, passed on from...
Here is a link to a genetics testing site that lists U & J as possible Native American mtDnas. http://dnaconsultants.com/Detailed/254.html I have heard others...
Don't forget when talking about J and Jews, genetic genealogists are usually talking about Ychromosomes rather than mtDNA. J is believed to have arisen from...
... where J comes from! I was looking over the site (with link),and reading about the DNA Fingerprinting. Any thoughts about this test? I plan on testing my...
Don't forget when talking about J and Jews, genetic genealogists are usually talking about Ychromosomes rather than mtDNA. J is believed to have arisen from ...
Is this a new message? J or 'Jasmine' is a Middle Eastern line. American dna testing companies contain biased or unrepresentative samples which give the...
My point was that at present about the most that can be said about J is that it originated somewhere along the line from Latvia to the Black Sea (maybe a...
Reviewers (e.g. Sykes, Oppenheimer) point to the Near or Middle East as the place of origin for Mtdna J. Indeed, Richards et. al. (2000) concluded that J has...
P.S. more recent research suggests that Richards' Near Eastern  ages for J are on the high side. However there is agreement that J was in the Near East...
So what does Richards say is the home land for JT? I was just going by the National Geographic Genome Project map. (Although I confess, it's been a while...
See also Jim Logan's comprehensive papers on this topic---links in the present YahooGroup. The data points to a Near Eastern origin. I hope it is clear that...
Thanks! I was kind of thinking that myself. ... American dna testing companies contain biased or unrepresentative samples which give the misleading impression...
Celiac Disease is known to manifest on CTLA-4. Is this mtDNA ? Hannah Lloyd BGS CSAC Dr. Lewis Weber & Associates Tanglewood West Office Building Suite 348 ...
No. The CTLA-4 gene is on Chromosome 2. ==================== J. J. (Jim) Logan Group Administrator, J-mtDNA and Logan DNA Project Owner/Moderator, J-mtDNA and...
Can the sample I sent to FTDNA be tested for Celiac? Two of my children have been diagnosed, my mother has Sjorgren's and her mother and grandfather had ...
No, FTNDA does not do medical testing. However, you can find several references to testing for Celiac if you got to Google and enter keywords like "celiac dna...
As an illustration, the highest rate of Mtdna J is in the Arabian Peninsula. Yet there has not been a single study of Saudi Arabian Mtdna. It is possible that...
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