1. M168
M89
M91
M96
M60
M304
M170
M130
M201
M52
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2. yDNA Haplogroup J

3. Haplogroup J (M304) arose somewhere in Mesopotamia between 15,000 and
10,000 years ago at the beginning of the Neolithic Revolution. As agriculture
spread from the Middle East at the end
of the Ice Age men of haplogroup J
dispersed throughout North Africa and Mediterranean Europe.
M304
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4. Haplogroup J (M304) arose somewhere in Mesopotamia between 15,000 and
10,000 years ago at the beginning of the Neolithic Revolution. As agriculture
spread from the Middle East at the end
of the Ice Age men of haplogroup J
dispersed throughout North Africa and Mediterranean Europe.
M304
Haplogroup J2 (M172) - Not long after
the emergence of haplogroup J a closely
related marker occurred on a man in the
Near East giving rise to haplogroup J2
(M172). J2 men dispersed throughout the
same area occupied by their J1 cousins.
This haplogroup is considered to be a
marker of Neolithic expansion and it is
found in a large percentage of both
Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews, as well as
non-Jewish men originating from the Levant.
M172
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5. Robert and John can trace their historic ancestors
Ireland
Haplogroup J2
Richard
Ukraine
Ashkenazi
Haplogroup J2
Robert and John can trace their historic ancestors
to the British Isles and were surprised to learn
that their deep paternal ancestors came to Europe
originally from the Fertile Crescent after 7000 BC
and the Agricultural Revolution.
Darwin was born and raised in Ecuador and as far as his
family knows they have lived there for many generations, if
not hundreds of years. His J1 haplogroup, however, not only
shows that his deep ancestry was in the Near East but that
his specific genetic pattern is the Cohen signature, suggesting
that his early forefathers may have been members of the
Cohanim, the Jewish priestly caste, which descends from Aaron,
the brother of Moses. Darwin now suspects that his family
originally may have been Sephardic Jews in Spain that escaped
to the New World as “conversos” sometime after the Inquisition.
He is currently researching records in Ecuador and Spain in
hope of finding documentation that fits the genetic evidence.
Richard’s grandfather came to America at the turn of the
20th century to escape the pogroms then being conducted
against Jews in Ukraine and Russia. Finding that he belongs
to haplogroup J2 confirmed that his Ashkenazi ancestors in
Eastern Europe had come originally from the Near East.
Darwin
Ecuador > Spain?
Haplogroup J1
“Cohen” marker
We have four men in the CSUEB sample from
haplogroup J:
John
England
Haplogroup J2
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6. M168
M89
M91
M96
M60
M170
M130
M201
M52
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7. yDNA Haplogroup I

8. 25,000 BC About 25,000 years ago the M170 (haplogroup I)
mutation occurred on the Y chromosome of a
M89 man in the Near East. Some of his male
descendants then entered Europe along a southern
route to become the founders of the Upper
Paleolithic Gravettian culture, the people famous
for the so-called “Venus” figurines.
M170
M89
25,000 BC
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9. During the Last Glacial Maximum (18 - 14,000 BC) men
of haplogroup I become genetically isolated in the
Balkans. As the glaciers began to melt this population
radiated to the north and west. Today, haplogroup I
occurs in high frequencies in Scandinavia and the
Balkans, with smaller numbers elsewhere. The
northern variety of haplogroup I seems to have been
common in Viking populations that conquered much of
western Europe between AD 800 and 1000, and ….
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10. Viking genes may explain the prehistoric ancestry
Tom
Norway
Glenn
Holland
…the trail of these
Viking genes may explain
the prehistoric ancestry
of several of the I-men
in our CSUEB sample,
whose historic European
origins are known.
Richard
England
Armando
Spain
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11. The End

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A kiosk presentation
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March 2 to June 15, 2007

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