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| Mitochondrial DNA Haplogroup V, popularly known as, "Clan Velda," is
most closely related to Haplogroup H, "Clan Helena." Hg V appears
to have originated about 16-17,000 years ago in Spain making it the youngest
of the mtDNA haplogroups. Clans Helena and Velda may be the only
ones to have evolved after humans reached Europe (i.e., after leaving
the Middle East). Hg H is the most common haplogroup in Europe, being
represented in about half the population, while Hg V is the rarest, being
represented in only about 4% of Europeans. Hg V is found thinly throughout
Europe, but is most common among the Basques of northern Spain and the
Saami people of Finland. Whit Athey has an excellent discussion of
Haplogroup
V on his web site. We have two project members who are Hg V.
In the trivia department, a matrilineal descendant of
Benjamin FRANKLIN's maternal grandmother has been mtDNA tested, and she
is Haplogroup V. |
| The Cambridge Reference Sequence (CRS) is arbitrarily designated
as the standard against which all mtDNA sequences are compared, and subject
test results are expressed as differences from the CRS. The
CRS happens to be negative for the 519C mutation,
which is otherwise very common, so the majority of tested individuals will
have this mutation listed in the HVR1 region. |
| In the table below, a darkened empty cell means the test was not ordered.
All HVR1 marker designations begin with "16___"; so, to save space and
improve readability, I've dropped the 16 in the tables. With regard
to results, a letter in red indicates a mutation
(a base has changed); a letter in green indicates
a new base has been inserted; a minus sign (-) indicates a base has been
lost. |
| With regard to lineages, given names and patronymics are shown as Initial
Caps, while surnames are shown in ALL-CAPS (these are the womens' maiden
names,
not their married names). |
| Your project admin recommends uploading your mtDNA results to MitoSearch.org,
which can be done at your FTDNA member page (on the "mtDNA Matches" tab). |
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