OK, not exactly relatives but people with whom one is associated in some way!
I know my haplogroup because I had my Y Chromosome DNA tested via the Genographic project and I found out that many thousands of years ago my family was Greek. How about that?
Today I went back online to see if there had been any updates in terms of additions to the database and so on. Well, there hadn't but I found that I am from haplogroup E1b1b1 (M35) and that there are some famous people in the same group. Here they are:
- Sewall Wright
- George Stephanopoulos
- Michelangelo
- David Attenborough
- William Harvey
- Lyndon B Johnson
- Zinedine Zedane
- Adolf Hitler ... ta daaa!
- Wolfgang Schniederman
- Walter Schniederhan
- Hugh Judson Kilpatrick
- John C Calhoun
POSSIBLE members:
- Albert Einstein
- William Henry Lancaster
- Ilya Efron
- Mussolini
The proportions of racial/ethnic groups within this haplogroup:
- East Africans 70%
- Southern Europeans 25%
- Moroccan 90%
- Balkans 50%
- Jews 35%
There you go and I know, there are some I've never heard of either!
DW
