Ik ben een H'tje!

Eindelijk zijn de resultaten van het DNA-onderzoek binnen. En ik behoor dus tot Haplogroep H. De geschiedenis van de H'tjes ziet er als volgt uit:

Ancestral line: "Eve" > L1/L0 > L2 > L3 > N > R > pre-HV > HV > H
This wave of migration into western Europe marked the appearance and spread of what archaeologists call the Aurignacian culture. The culture is distinguished by significant innovations in methods of manufacturing tools, standardization of tools, and use of a broader set of tool types, such as end-scrapers for preparing animal skins and tools for woodworking. Around 15,000 to 20,000 years ago, colder temperatures and a drier global climate locked much of the world's fresh water at the polar ice caps, making living conditions near impossible for much of the northern hemisphere. Early Europeans retreated to the warmer climates of the Iberian Peninsula, Italy, and the Balkans, where they waited out the cold spell. Their population sizes were drastically reduced, and much of the genetic diversity that had previously existed in Europe was lost.

Beginning about 15,000 years ago—after the ice sheets had begun their retreat—humans moved north again and recolonized western Europe. By far the most frequent mitochondrial lineage carried by these expanding groups was haplogroup H. Because of the population growth that quickly followed this expansion, your haplogroup now dominates the European female landscape.
Today haplogroup H comprises 40 to 60 percent of the gene pool of most European populations. In Rome and Athens, for example, the frequency of H is around 40 percent of the entire population, and it exhibits similar frequencies throughout western Europe. Moving eastward the frequencies of H gradually decreases, clearly illustrating the migratory path these settlers followed as they left the Iberian Peninsula after the ice sheets had receded. Haplogroup H is found at around 25 percent in Turkey and around 20 percent in the Caucasus Mountains. While haplogroup H is considered the Western European lineage due to its high frequency there, it is also found much further east. Today it comprises around 20 percent of southwest Asian lineages, about 15 percent of people living in Central Asia, and around five percent in northern Asia.

En hoewel ik dus een stinknormale Westeuropeaan ben, is het wel heel erg leuk om deel te zijn van zo'n belangrijk onderzoek! Lang leve haplogroep H!

P.S. Patrice z'n eerste analyse leverde niks op. Ze gaan nu opnieuw testen. Zodra de resultaten binnen zijn, laten we jullie weten of ook hij via de vaderlijke lijn tot het illustere gezelschap van de H'tjes behoord.