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L7a Descendants of Hendrina Smit: the most unique MtDNA Lineage in the world

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Phylogenetic Placement of New L7 Lineage PaulA. Maier1,2,6*, Göran Runfeldt1,6, Roberta J. Estes1,3,6 & MiguelG.Vilar1,4,5,6 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. Te images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. © Te Author(s) 2022

Newly discovered Haplogroup: MtDNA L7a: the most unique MtDNA Lineage in the world

Danielle le Marais says FTDNA are so keen to move this forward, that they are offering free MtDNA tests to anyone directly descended from Hendrina Smit/Smith
...I'm also still trying to find her parentage, & wondering if anyone has directly (female line) descended from Margaretha Steenkamp 1715-60, & married to Floris Smit/Smith had a mitochondrial test done..This could confirm or exclude that line of ancestry...

She has the most unique mitochondrial DNA lineage ever found in a living person.

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"For example, one single L7 sequence (L7a*) that traces roots to South Africa is 80,000 years apart from all other L7s discovered! That is the most unique mitochondrial DNA lineage ever found in a living person."

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Free MtDNA tests to anyone directly descended on the motherline from Hendrina Smit/Smith

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23 candidates for testing

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6 candidates for testing

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9 candidates for testing

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