Curtprice75
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Does anyone have any insight on this maternal haplogroup? From what I've seen about it, it's of East African, Bantu origins but I want more understanding of it so any insight into this would be great.
I don't unfortunately but I do have a map that tells which countries it might be occuring most frequently in.
It looks like Namibia near South Africa is where it's most common but it also occurs throughout the continent in smaller percentages.
Does anyone have any insight on this maternal haplogroup? From what I've seen about it, it's of East African, Bantu origins but I want more understanding of it so any insight into this would be great.
I don't unfortunately but I do have a map that tells which countries it might be occuring most frequently in.
It looks like Namibia near South Africa is where it's most common but it also occurs throughout the continent in smaller percentages.
It also occurs across the Middle East. If you break it down into the subclades it gets even more restrictive and honestly confusing.
For example, mine is L3d1a1a. From my research the known samples have only been recorded in large numbers in Kenya and Madagascar. Interestingly enough it also turns up in Bahrain, Kuwait, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Yemen. Among the diaspora it turns up in mostly African Americans (at least we are the ones in the diaspora actively getting tested).
It also occurs across the Middle East. If you break it down into the subclades it gets even more restrictive and honestly confusing.
For example, mine is L3d1a1a. From my research the known samples have only been recorded in large numbers in Kenya and Madagascar. Interestingly enough it also turns up in Bahrain, Kuwait, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Yemen. Among the diaspora it turns up in mostly African Americans (at least we are the ones in the diaspora actively getting tested).
Great post and thank you for this information. From what I've learned of L3(Our maternal ancestor) is that there was an "Out of Africa" expansion where Haplogroups M and N began or rather have their roots from before going to Europe and Asia. But in our case, ours is primarily African origins and since our specific haplogroups are actually common among us(Pre Civil War Black Population Descendants), I assume that my maternal haplogroup ancestor is West African. L3 also went through a Bantu migration from East and Central Africa. It's sort of similar to the A haplogroup that became E from DE to e-m180 to E-u290 wrt Y-DNA in my case. That's Bantu Speaker migrations into Niger/Congo speakers. But I haven't been able to confirm both my parental and maternal ancestors are specifically from there yet.
What is your L3d sub-clade? I’ve learned that there can be great distances between origins and dispersion within each clade. For example L3d1a1a has rarely turned up in West Africa save for 1 or 2 samples found in Nigeria, but L3d1a1 could be widely represented in Guinea or Senegambia (I’m just throwing this out as an example, it may not be the case) with little to no representation in East Africa.
Another example, my father’s Y-DNA is B-??? (I don’t remember the numbers). B haplos are pretty common in both West and East Africa, but his particuar sub-clade has only turned up in samples from Burkina Faso and a small number of samples from Mali and maybe Togo.
Mine is L3D1-5. That's why I made this thread for that reason because I'm researching this for me.