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My uncle's deep clade results were determined a while back to be R-L23*; I even had his results added to the R ht35 project.
Recently, I began comparing his y-str 67 marker results to other families of interest that are R P312+ and he seemed to fit into this cluster, in some cases even showing an affinity to L21* results.
The surname is Robinson & moved from the British Isles to Virginia in the 1600s.
I have long been a bit skeptical of my uncle's place as an outlier to the R1b world, wondering if Family Tree DNA somehow got it wrong.
Recently, another person in the Robinson DNA project had the deep clade test done & he came back as R U106+. He & my uncle have both been assigned to the John Robinson of Goochland Co., VA group. The genetic distance between the two of them is only 4 out of 67 markers.
Assuming that the SNP tests are right, I think it would be implausible that the two could have such a high degree of convergence. Similarly, assuming that the y-str results are right, I think it would be highly implausible that in my uncle's case, that U106, L11, P310, P311, and L51 could have all reversed themselves, especially whn one considers that this would have had to have happened within the last 300 years.
I have asked Family Tree DNA to look into this & ascertain a cause for the haplogroup divergence.
Has anyone else ever dealt with a situation like this?
Timothy Peterman
Recently, I began comparing his y-str 67 marker results to other families of interest that are R P312+ and he seemed to fit into this cluster, in some cases even showing an affinity to L21* results.
The surname is Robinson & moved from the British Isles to Virginia in the 1600s.
I have long been a bit skeptical of my uncle's place as an outlier to the R1b world, wondering if Family Tree DNA somehow got it wrong.
Recently, another person in the Robinson DNA project had the deep clade test done & he came back as R U106+. He & my uncle have both been assigned to the John Robinson of Goochland Co., VA group. The genetic distance between the two of them is only 4 out of 67 markers.
Assuming that the SNP tests are right, I think it would be implausible that the two could have such a high degree of convergence. Similarly, assuming that the y-str results are right, I think it would be highly implausible that in my uncle's case, that U106, L11, P310, P311, and L51 could have all reversed themselves, especially whn one considers that this would have had to have happened within the last 300 years.
I have asked Family Tree DNA to look into this & ascertain a cause for the haplogroup divergence.
Has anyone else ever dealt with a situation like this?
Timothy Peterman
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