First of all, I have A/B positive blood type. That really doesn't mean anything to most people, but I'm one of only 3.4 % of people in the US to have that blood type. That's gotta mean something. Puts me in an exclusive group at the very least.
Secondly, my DNA haplogroup is U5b. That's Ursula. I don't know what the 5b stands for...a subgroup of some sort, which means something, but I don't know what. 40,000 years ago. I'm highly evolved. :-) I knew that! My second toe is shorter than my big toe. Well...that's how you're supposed to be able to tell.
By doing the DNA test I've met a couple of new cousins. One lives in Asia. Interesting!
Haven't figured out what all the mtDNA means yet, but I will eventually.
This is my first blog. So I'm learning. Most 74 year old women won't even do a computer. I think I'm doing great to even try. Last time I tried to do a blog, I lost the whole thing and couldn't figure out what happened to it. Well, as my grandmother Brownie used to say, "Can't never could." I think that was a Shakespeare quote. She was a walking cliche', and I found out that most of the cliche's she used were from Shakespeare. What a gal. She had an 8th grade education and was quoting Shakespeare...and didn't even know it.
Some of my multi-g grandfathers' slave descendants are beginning to show up. I match a little DNA with a black gal and a black guy. It was probably one of those Bonham guys...wild and crazy guys...! My DNA is strictly European/Caucasian; I have no black in me, so it had to be my white grandpaw (great, that is) fooling around! Wow. Who'd a thunk it?
I am Haplogroup U5b according to 23andMe where I tested. See next.
Haplogroup U5
Among the oldest mtDNA haplogroups found in European remains of Homo sapiens is U5. The age of U5 is estimated at 50,000 but could be as old as 60,500 years. Approximately 11% of total Europeans and 10% of European-Americans are in haplogroup U5.The presence of haplogroup U5 in Europe pre-dates the expansion of agriculture in Europe. Bryan Sykes' popular book The Seven Daughters of Eve calculated that it arose 45,000-50,000 years ago in Delphi, Greece and named the originator of haplogroup U5 Ursula. However the details related to location and age are speculative. Barbujani and Bertorelle estimate the age of haplogroup U5 as about 52,000 years ago, being the oldest subclade of haplogroup U.[11]
U5 has been found in human remains dating from the Mesolithic in England, Germany, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal and Russia.[12]
Haplogroup U5 and its subclades U5a and U5b form the highest population concentrations in the far north, in Sami, Finns, and Estonians, but it is spread widely at lower levels throughout Europe. This distribution, and the age of the haplogroup, indicate individuals from this haplogroup were part of the initial expansion tracking the retreat of ice sheets from Europe ~10kya.
Haplogroup U5 is found also in small frequencies and at much lower diversity in the Near East and parts of Africa, suggesting back-migration of people from northern Europe to the south.[2]
Mitochondrial haplogroup U5a has also been associated with HIV infected individuals displaying accelerated progression to AIDS and death.[13]
- U5b1b: has been found in Fulbe and Papel people in Guinea-Bissau and Yakuts people of northeastern Siberia.[14][15]
- U5b3: The subclade is found primarily on the island of Sardinia.
- U5b3 is now my primary Haplogroup.
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