Hello List,
We have first and final results (Markers 1-12) returned for our CARACO member
(#94500), the one with the origin in Broussa, Turkey:
http://dgmweb.net/genealogy/FGS/Car/CaracoAlbert-EstellaEskenazi.shtml
His haplotype is rare, with no matches closer than 10/12 or 8/9 in the FTDNA and
Ysearch databases, but his haplotype does clearly indicate he is Haplogroup L2b:
http://dgmweb.net/genealogy/DNA/Carrico/CarricoDNA-results-HgL.shtml#L2b
Haplogroup L arose about 30,000 years ago and is most common (as subclade L1) in
southern India, which is why L is sometimes called the "Indian Clan." It is
also common in western Pakistan (as subclade L3), but is otherwise spread thinly
across central and southwestern Asia and Anatolia, and in southern Europe (as
subclade L2).
Subclade L2b is sometimes called the "Mediterranean" group because it is the
one
found (at low frequencies) in the countries bordering the north shore of the
Mediterranean Sea, from Portugal to Turkey. L2b is everywhere rare.
Our subject has also joined the Haplogroup L DNA Project at FTDNA, where the
results table gives the appearance of L2b being one of the two most common
subclades. However, the FTDNA database is heavily biased towards this otherwise
rare subclade simply because most of the individuals being tested at FTDNA are
European-Americans.
Our subject is a practicing Sephardic Jew, and he will be the first Haplogroup L
to join the Sephardic Heritage DNA Project based at FTDNA. Haplogroup L2b is
(obviously) a rare subclade for this ethnic group, so his results are of
considerable interest to the Sephardic project.
His result does fulfill the prediction of the administrator of the Haplogroup J
Project, Bonnie Schrack, that Peter CARRICO's descendants would not match this
Sephardic CARACO, but I suspect she'll be surprised to find out he turned up
Haplogroup L2b, rather than J.
Diana