Got my Maternal Haplogroup back

[Apollo Creed]

From Nat Geo pretty much nobody who took their test share my results lol

MATERNAL LINE
L2D
<0.1%
Your maternal haplogroup is shared by <0.1% of all participants in the project

PATERNAL LINE
E-L485
0.2%
Your paternal haplogroup is shared by 0.2% of all participants in the project

 

[invalid]

I have. Which one did you want to see?

I have also tested with AncestryDNA.

Since we share the same paternal haplo - see if we match - my kit # M070921

 

[Samori Toure]

@Diasporan Royalty

I got my dads Results back

I am going to take a stab at it. Your DNA sounds very Kenyan, Ugandan or Rwandan.

I bet that I am wrong, but that is what those result read like.

 

[Samori Toure]

Looks East African.

Yep. She is a dead ringer for a Kenyan, Tanzanian or maybe even a Rwandan. Her DNA reads like DNA from that region.

 

[Samori Toure]

I have no idea what this means.

What it means is that certain haplogroups are only found in certain places. A haplogroup usually only moves because of a migration. Case in point would genetic lines from Western African and Western Europe are found abundantly in not only Western Africa and Western Europe, but also through out the Americas.

Your DNA looks more closely aligned to East Africans than to West Africans. West Africans and East Africans have common ancestors, but they split thousands of years ago. Your DNA looks very much like some one from East or Central Africa; more so than someone from West African.

 

[Lotsford]

My maternal haplogroup is D1

My paternal haplogroup is R-L21



But I'm Black tho

Your MtDNA could be picked up from thousands of years ago. Say at one point in history, a white person traveled to Africa and had a child with a woman. Then that child grows up and has children will African women, those children do the same, etc. Even 10 generations later the paternal haplogroup will still be from Europe, even if autosomal DNA becomes 98% African Origin.

 

[Oceanicpuppy]

I am going to take a stab at it. Your DNA sounds very Kenyan, Ugandan or Rwandan.

I bet that I am wrong, but that is what those result read like.

I don’t think so.

I’m pretty sure I’m mostly west African or Central African.

I scored a zero on East African on 23 and me. That’s not a realistic possibility for me.

I had like 3.7 percent Central/Southern African initially but they revised it and some of it went to my west African percentage and added a very small percentage 0.1% to North African. Now I’m at 0.7 % Central / Southern African

 

[Apollo Creed]

From Nat Geo pretty much nobody who took their test share my results lol

MATERNAL LINE
L2D
<0.1%
Your maternal haplogroup is shared by <0.1% of all participants in the project

PATERNAL LINE
E-L485
0.2%
Your paternal haplogroup is shared by 0.2% of all participants in the project

what mine mean brehs?

 

[invalid]

I had like 3.7 percent Central/Southern African

This is probably Malagsy DNA. Many of the slaves that were brought over, that didn't originate in West Africa, were from Madagascar.

http://rootsrevealed.blogspot.com/2014/06/got-roots-in-madagascar.html

Or it could be from the Kongo Kingdom of Angola which is where the earliest blacks who came to Virginia and the colonies were from. A great number of black people from Brazil are from slaves brought over from the Kongo. I would check to see if you have any Brazilian matches.

 

[Samori Toure]

I don’t think so.

I’m pretty sure I’m mostly west African or Central African.

I scored a zero on East African on 23 and me. That’s not a realistic possibility for me.

LOL. 23andme ancestry composition for ethnicity is so bad that they were and probably still are giving out free tests to Africans so that they can improve they genetic DNA ethnicity profile database for African Americans.

23andMe: African Genetics
The African Genetics Project - 23andMe Blog

23andme is pretty much strictly a medical database. They are just now really getting into the ancestor composition stuff, but they are way, way behind Ancestry.com, Gedmatch and even African Ancestry.
23andMe's ancestry results 'most confounding': new report


All that 23andme does is just lump you into North, West, Central, East or South African, but that doesn't tell you anything because their regions are arbitrary. You should upload your 23andme results to Gedmatch and they will give you tribes and regions that you are from.

 

[Oceanicpuppy]

This is probably Malagsy DNA. Many of the slaves that were brought over, that didn't originate in West Africa, were from Madagascar.

http://rootsrevealed.blogspot.com/2014/06/got-roots-in-madagascar.html

Or it could be from the Kongo Kingdom of Angola which is where the earliest blacks who came to Virginia and the colonies were from. A great number of black people from Brazil are from slaves brought over from the Kongo. I would check to see if you have any Brazilian matches.

Ancestor birthplaces

• United States of America (448)
• United Kingdom (15)
• Canada (13)
• Germany (8)
• Ireland (8)
• Italy (6)
• Mexico (5)
• Sweden (4)
• Russia (3)
• Netherlands (2)
• Poland (2)
• Portugal (2)
• Puerto Rico (2)
• Switzerland (2)
• Vietnam (2)
• Argentina (1)
• Australia (1)
• Bahamas (1)
• Barbados (1)
• Belgium (1)
• Reset

None from Brazil

 

[Black Haven]

Ancestor birthplaces

• United States of America (448)
• United Kingdom (15)
• Canada (13)
• Germany (8)
• Ireland (8)
• Italy (6)
• Mexico (5)
• Sweden (4)
• Russia (3)
• Netherlands (2)
• Poland (2)
• Portugal (2)
• Puerto Rico (2)
• Switzerland (2)
• Vietnam (2)
• Argentina (1)
• Australia (1)
• Bahamas (1)
• Barbados (1)
• Belgium (1)
• Reset

None from Brazil

Where did you get this info from? Did you upload one of your DNA test to a site to get it? And why isn't there any african countries up there?

 

[Samori Toure]

From Nat Geo pretty much nobody who took their test share my results lol

MATERNAL LINE
L2D
<0.1%
Your maternal haplogroup is shared by <0.1% of all participants in the project

PATERNAL LINE
E-L485
0.2%
Your paternal haplogroup is shared by 0.2% of all participants in the project

I will take a shot. I think that both of yours are West African.

Your L2d maternal haplogroup is probably pretty close to my maternal group of L2c, so we are probably from the same ethnic group or from groups that are closely related. It is really confusing how L2a, L2b, L2c and L2d split, but apparently they did and your L2d is even rarer than my L2c haplogroup which is also rare. Most of the splinting off occurred when they got around present day Ghana and Nigeria. Some lines kept going West like L2c, which ended up going along the Sahel corridor and settling among the Mandingos. The only other groups that are largely L2c are the Wollof, Fulani and Balanta. I assume that L2d must be around in that area too.

Do the Four Clades of the mtDNA Haplogroup L2 Evolve at Different Rates?
http://www.mamiwata.com/africanmtDNA.pdf


Your paternal line of EL485 is more confusing. I have just come to the conclusion that all of our fathers were rolling stones. Anyway I took this right out of Wikipedia. I don't know how accurate it is, but your paternal haplogroup looks like it iis all part of E1b1a.

Haplogroup E-V38 - Wikipedia

 

[Oceanicpuppy]

Where did you get this info from? Did you upload one of your DNA test to a site to get it? And why isn't there any african countries up there?

It’s on my 23 and me account.

I’m African American. So most Of my DNA relatives are Americans.
I’m assuming since they have a low number of African people talking these test it’s hard to get one.

 

[Apollo Creed]

I will take a shot. I think that both of yours are West African.

Your L2d maternal haplogroup is probably pretty close to my maternal group of L2c, so we are probably from the same ethnic group or from groups that are closely related. It is really confusing how L2a, L2b, L2c and L2d split, but apparently they did and your L2d is even rarer than my L2c haplogroup which is also rare. Most of the splinting off occurred when they got around present day Ghana and Nigeria. Some lines kept going West like L2c, which ended up going along the Sahel corridor and settling among the Mandingos. The only other groups that are largely L2c are the Wollof, Fulani and Balanta. I assume that L2d must be around in that area too.

Do the Four Clades of the mtDNA Haplogroup L2 Evolve at Different Rates?
http://www.mamiwata.com/africanmtDNA.pdf


Your paternal line of EL485 is more confusing. I have just come to the conclusion that all of our fathers were rolling stones. Anyway I took this right out of Wikipedia. I don't know how accurate it is, but your paternal haplogroup looks like it iis all part of E1b1a.

Haplogroup E-V38 - Wikipedia

L2d is rare as hell because I cant find anything about it on google. And what is confusing about EL485?

Some more info from my results
Branch: L2d
Age: About 12,000 Years Ago
Location of Origin: Central Africa

From Central Africa, this lineage has spread in low frequencies to the north and south. It is present as far east as the Arabian Peninsula.




For my Paternal info I have the following:



Photograph by Pascal Maitre, National Geographic

Branch: M2
Age: 20,000 – 30,000 Years Ago
Location of Origin: West Africa

The first man from this line was born when most of West Africa was fertile and hospitable. In time, the drying of the Sahara forced groups of his descendants to migrate south into sub-Saharan Africa. Then with the Bantu expansions, these same populations moved once more into Central Africa, East Africa, and southern Africa.

Point of Interest
Due to its high frequency in Western Africa, this branch accounts for most of today's African-Americans who came to the Americas as part of the transatlantic slave trade.