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Recently got the results of my ‘Big Y-700’ test on FTDNA. Was assigned the clade R-BY157765 (a marker downstream of Z279, but upstream of M153). The estimated timeline and theoretical migration path places it around the eastern side of the Sierra de Guadarrama (around the territories inhabited...

R1b-Z214 - 6’3” (192cm)

I inherited this haplogroup from a familial line that traces back to the Azores (Faial island). The genetic substructure identified in the local population is uniquely characterized by significant levels NW European (Anglo-Dutch) admixture. [They are the only Iberian population cohort belonging...

R1b-Z214. Originated in Franco-Cantabrian region 800-750BCE

That’s a naive assumption to make. Why would you find it logical to assume that national percentages in Iberia would be identically reflected in Latin America? There are so many variables you’re failing to consider that I don’t even know where to begin. For starters, we know that the Americas...

You’ve got that backwards. The Sardinian population is the one that absorbed significant levels of foreign (primarily Punic/Berber and Near Eastern in origin) admixture in the post-Iron Age epochs. Such introgressions occurred on a scale that was far more consequential/transformative in...

First generation American. My family comes from Asturies, Spain (Gijón, Oviedo, and Villaviciosa) Your closest Ancient populations... Belgae + Gallo-Roman (4.702) Belgae + Illyrian (5.418) Visigoth + Belgae (5.852) Aquitani + Illyrian (6.074) Visigoth + Illyrian (6.228) Illyrian (8.193)...