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This project is a meeting place for users who share the U5a1e Mitochondrial DNA haplogroup, which means they are related along their maternal lines. Users in this group may want to share their family trees with each other to find overlaps and merge duplicate profiles in order to join or expand the World Family Tree and discover new relatives.
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From National Geographic Branch: U5a Age: 22,400 ± 4,920 Years Ago Location of Origin: West Asia Some from this line traveled west to Europe while others moved north and east to South Asia.
Today, this lineage has its highest frequencies in Europe: Slovenia (17 percent), Bulgaria (13 percent), and, Luxembourg (9 percent). It is present in West Asia in Lebanon (9 percent).
Note: This branch is not accompanied by a major movement on the map, and research on this branch is continuing.
U5a1e has polymorphisms in 3564 8610 ( + U5a1 polymorphisms).
https://www.eupedia.com/europe/Haplogroup_U5_mtDNA.shtml
U5a lineages have been found so far in Mesolithic Russia (U5a1) and Sweden (U5a1 and U5a2), which points at an eastern origin of this subclade. Mesolithic samples from Poland, Germany and Italy yielded both U5a and U5b subclades. German samples included U5a2a, U5a2c3, U5b2 and U5b2a2.
The same observations are valid for the Neolithic and Chalcolithic periods too, with U5a1 being found in Russia and Ukraine, U5b in France (Cardium Pottery and Megalithic), U5b2 in Portugal. Once again, both U5a and U5b were found in Germany, although with a much higher proportion of U5b this time - especially U5b2a, which was found both among farmers and fisher-gatherers. What's interesting is the appearance of isolated U5a1 samples in Catalonia and Portugal, both circa 3000 BCE, which could be a sign of an Eastern European migration, and maybe even the arrival of a few isolated Proto-Indo-European tribes from the Pontic Steppe.
Mesolithic Europeans would have belonged essentially to Y-haplogroup I, while R1a and R1b were present mostly in eastern Europe. The rare Y-haplogroup C1a2, descendent from the Aurignacian Cro-Magnons, was also identified. Five Mesolithic U5 samples, all dating from c. 8,000 years ago, were tested for both mitochondrial DNA and Y-chromosomal DNA. An individual from leon in northern Spain belonged to mtDNA U5b2c1 and Y-DNA C1a2 (Olalde et al. 2014). Another one from Loschbour in Luxembourg belonged to mtDNA U5b1a and Y-DNA I2. Three men from Motala in southern Sweden belonged respectively to U5a1 and U5a2 and to Y-haplogroups I2 and I*, possibly pre-I1
U5a1: found in most of Europe, Siberia, Central Asia, South Asia (incl. India) and the Middle East / found in Mesolithic Russia and Neolithic Ukraine U5a1a U5a1a1: found mostly in northern, central and eastern Europe and in Central Asia (Uzbekistan) / found in the Afanasievo and Yamna cultures and in Chalcolithic Germany (Bell Beaker) U5a1a1a: found in Poland U5a1a1b: found in Sweden U5a1a1c: found in Sweden U5a1a1d: found in the British Isles and Scandinavia U5a1a1e Northern Europe
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U5a1e includes only 4 test results with ancestry in Germany, Poland and Russia.