Home > Ancestral Genetic Pre-History > Y-chromosome (Male Line) DNA-testing Results

Here are:

1. Peter Douglas Zohrab's 67-marker results obtained from Family Tree DNA in 2009,

2. followed by his original 12-marker results obtained from the Genographic Project in 2005.

3. Finally, the results of his Deep Clade test are at the bottom of the page.  These are the values for markers which help to refine exactly which sub-haplogroup (so to speak) we belong to, and are relevant to issues such as migration routes, etc.. These were initially obtained from ftdna.com, but later repeated and slightly added to by 23andme.com.

There appeared to be a couple of discrepancies between the results from the different companies, but different companies use slightly different values for certain markers.  This is set out on the page http://www.smgf.org/ychromosome/marker_standards.jspx .

Here are the results of the Deep Clade test carried out in 2008 by Family Tree DNA:

L1- L11+ M18- M269+ M335- M73- P107- P25+ P297+ P310+ P311+ P312- U106- U198-

In 2011 there was an update to the general classification and naming of Y-DNA haplogroups. This particularly affects the R haplogroup because so many people of European and West Asian descent are in that haplogroup and they order many more tests than other groups do, which creates new data that has to be accommodated within the model.

It seems that the Zohrab subclade is now called R1b1a2a1a1.

It is recommended that people remember it by the last mutation, which is P311 in my case (if I understand it correctly). Then you will not be too confused if and when R1b1a2a1a1 gets changed to something else.

As stated above, his results were:

L1- L11+ M18- M269+ M335- M73- P107- P25+ P297+ P310+ P311+ L52+ P312- U106- U198-

It appears that you have to read this as a summary of a branching tree, from left to right, as a sequence. Every time there is a "+" sign, that signifies a mutation, and therefore a branching of the tree. So you have to follow all the plus signs until you get to the last one.

New tests are offered from time to time by the Family Tree DNA company, and at some stage (if not already available) there will probably be a test which he (or some other Zohrab family member) could get done which will relate to a branching of the tree below L52, apart from the three which have already been tested for and provided a negative result (P312, U106, and U198).

You can see the new version of the tree at:

http://www.isogg.org/tree/ISOGG_HapgrpR.html

See also the Y-DNA Haplogroup Confirmation.