The following list of DNA haplogroups of European Royalty is found on the EUpedia site: http://www.eupedia.com/forum/showthread.php?25236-Haplogroups-of-European-kings-and-queens
I cannot vouch for the accuracy of the posting, but it may be of interest to genetic genealogists.
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In February FTDNA announced that they were switching to the Illumina OMNI test chip for their Family Finder autosomal DNA test. Since then people have been gradually getting their test results from the new chip. At this time I have 122 matches from the old Affimatrix chip and 110 from the Illumina chip. They are not all the same and I will be comparing the results from each chip.
In the past I have advised people to do their first autosomal DNA test at 23andme.com since they had a lower cost and they compared the X chromosome, which FTDNA does not currently do. In addition, males got their Y DNA haplogroup and their mtDNA haplogroup. Females got the mtDNA haplogroup. Since FTDNA had announced that they would compare 23andme results to FTDNA Family Finder results, this seemed to be the most cost-effective testing protocol to follow. The switch by FTDNA should make the comparison of results much easier since 23andme also uses an Illumina test chip.
23andMe will have a 1 day sale starting at 12:00 am P.S.T. on 11 April, 2011, ending that day at 11:59 pm PST. The sale price will be $108.00 for the test and one year of access to your test results. After one year, you will need to pay $9.00 per month to continue to have additional genealogical and health results added to your test results.
The current price is $199.00 for the test, plus $9.00 per month for at least 12 months to access to your results.
My matches at 23andMe:
Relative Finder: 753
New in the last 7 days (19)
New in the last 30 days (78)
Sharing Genomes (198)
Public Matches (59)
Contact Sent (478)
Inbound Contact (0)
Contact Accepted (179)
Contact Declined (28)
Matches to Contact (25)
Introduction Canceled (0)
FTDNA:
Family Finder:
Affymetrix: 122
Illumina: 56
At 23andMe I have a known 1st cousin, a predicted 2nd cousin who has not responded to emails, and then several confirmed 3rd cousins, 6th cousins and 10th cousins.
At FTDNA I have no higher than predicted 3rd cousin matches and the highest confirmed match is with a 4th cousin.
Mitogenomic and microsatellite variation in descendants of the founder population of Newfoundland: high genetic diversity in an historically isolated population.
Pope et al. (2011)
Abstract:
The island of Newfoundland, the first of England's overseas colonies, was settled from the 17th century onward by restricted numbers of English, Irish, and French immigrants, in small ``outport'' communities that have maintained geographic, religious, and linguistic isolation to the latest generations.
To measure the extent of modification and loss of genetic variation through founder effect, drift, and inbreeding in this historically isolated population, we analyzed the complete mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) genomes and 14 microsatellite loci from each of 27 individuals with matrilineal ancestries extending to the colonial period. Every individual has a unique mtDNA genome sequence. All but one of these genomes are assignable to one of five major (H,J,K,T, and U) or minor (I) European haplogroups. The possibility of homoplasy at single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) sites that define subtypes within the H haplogroup is discussed. Observed haplogroup proportions do not differ significantly from those of western Europeans or between English and Irish Newfoundlanders. The exceptional individual is a member of haplogroup A2, who appears to be the descendant of a Mi'kmaq First Nations mother and a French father, a common marriage pattern in the early settlement of Newfoundland.
Microsatellite diversity is high (HE = 0.763), unstructured with respect to mtDNA haplotype or ethnicity, and there is no evidence of linkage disequilibrium. There is a small but significant degree of inbreeding (FIS = 0.0174). Collection of whole mtDNA genome data was facilitated by the use of microarray sequencing, and we describe a simple algorithm that is 99.67% efficient for sequence recovery.
http://www.mun.ca/biology/scarr/Pope,_Carr,_Smith,_&_Marshall_2011_Genome_54,110.pdf
Late Tuesday I had 594 matches in Relative Finder at 23andMe. On Wednesday I had 624, and on Thursday I had 655. Friday I added 2 more and 2 more again today, Saturday, 29 January, for a total of 659. Only one match has been at the 3rd cousin level. The rest have been in the 4th to 5th cousin range with a few "Distant Cousins" thrown in. One person had 5 links to me and one person had a single 50cm link. So far 3 people have accepted contact and shared genomes.
I'll post periodic updates as more matches come in.
CeCe Moore has reported on her quick comparison of her version 3 results to her version 2 results from 23andMe. According to an analysis by Jim McMillan there are approximately 30K SNPs that were in version 2 that are not in version 3.
Here is the link:Update on 23andMe's v3 results: Relative Finder comparison and ~30,000 v2 locations missing from v3
One of the goals of this site is to show how to use genetic genealogy to assist with document genealogy. Randy Majors has a recent post that does just that. Read it on his website: The man who wasn't John Charles Brown
