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L2e is extremely rare so I'm not surprised that you have not found any information on it. I looked at the mitotool database and found 6 samples in GenBank and 1 in the 1000 Genomes study. If you tested the full sequence, you can compare your results to these samples to see if you match one of them more closely than the others.
GenBankID, Author, country of origin
EU092724, Behar, Guinea-Bissau-Mandinga
DQ112709, Kivisild, Dominican
FJ460523, Costa, Tunisia
JQ044816, Barbieri, BurkinaFaso-Mande/Bias
EF657291, Herrnstadt, Africa
JQ045049, Barbieri, BurkinaFaso-Mande/Ssamo
NA19108, 1000Genomes, Nigeria-Yoruba
The Kivisild sample is presumably Dominican of African origin and the Herrnstadt study did not identify a country of origin, so only 5 of these samples are helpful for geographic origins.
The common ancestor of L2 is estimated to have lived about 90,000 years ago, and L2e experienced a bottle neck of about 60,000 years, and is defined by 25 mutations that accumulated during that time. It's difficult to estimate the age of L2e given the small number of samples, but it might be approximately 20,000 years. So you definitely need the full sequence test to get a more precise estimate of your location in the L2e tree.
GenBankID, Author, country of origin
EU092724, Behar, Guinea-Bissau-Mandinga
DQ112709, Kivisild, Dominican
FJ460523, Costa, Tunisia
JQ044816, Barbieri, BurkinaFaso-Mande/Bias
EF657291, Herrnstadt, Africa
JQ045049, Barbieri, BurkinaFaso-Mande/Ssamo
NA19108, 1000Genomes, Nigeria-Yoruba
The Kivisild sample is presumably Dominican of African origin and the Herrnstadt study did not identify a country of origin, so only 5 of these samples are helpful for geographic origins.
The common ancestor of L2 is estimated to have lived about 90,000 years ago, and L2e experienced a bottle neck of about 60,000 years, and is defined by 25 mutations that accumulated during that time. It's difficult to estimate the age of L2e given the small number of samples, but it might be approximately 20,000 years. So you definitely need the full sequence test to get a more precise estimate of your location in the L2e tree.
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