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Anatole A. Klyosov DNA Genealogy, Mutation Rates, And Some Historical Evidence Written in Y-Chromosome, Part II: Walking the map Journal of Genetic Genealogy, vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 217-256, 2009 |
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There goes a cliche that R1a1 haplotype is a Indo-European marker, associated exclusively with the Indo-Europeans. They have a patent on R1a1, and found anywhere, it is an undisputable evidence of Indo-European language. Or, rather, language and genetics. However, a closer examination allows to reach different conclusions. In Europe, the R1a figure may be approximately 60% of the European and of the 40% Asian origin, and who holds the patent and who is a knock-off is a matter of parochial patriotism. In Asia, the figure may be reversed, say 90% Asian origin, and 10% European. The highest R1 diversity is in Pakistan, maybe it was a refuge 18,000 ybp, or maybe it is a more recent crossroad where all versions of R1 deposited their genes. Generally speaking, no special training is needed to grasp the methods, logics, and results of the work. The offered citation from the A. Klyosov article is discussing, among other things, the 3 manifestations of the R1a1, the first of which must be identical with the R1b, because R1b is a forking development within the R1 populace, and therefore the R1b1 Kurgans who invaded Europe from the west ca. 4000 BC must be (genetically) the same as the R1a1 who reached the Balkans ca. 10-8 mill. BC. In other words, from the demographic standpoint they are the same people marked by different genetic markers, distanced by 5 millennia and technology of horse husbandry, who admixed to different existing populations. And their language(s) must be genetically related, i.e. the Balkans' R1a1 spoke a Proto-language of the Iberian Kurgans R1b1, or a Proto-Proto-Bask/Celtic/Italic agglutinative vernacular BEFORE they entered Balkans, and Proto-non-IE, the language of the Old Europe, AFTER they started westward expansion under the pressure of R1b1 Kurganians ca. 4300 BC. The Iberian Kurgans R1b1 with Proto-Bask/Celtic/Italic agglutinative vernacular BEFORE they entered Northern Europe were already speaking the Proto-Proto-IE language BEFORE they expanded to the Eastern Europe as Corded Ware, and Proto-IE language AFTER they expanded to Urals, Central Asia, and eventually India. The linguistic change from R1a1 and R1b1 agglutinative to R1a1 flexive took place in the Northern Europe between 4th and 3rd mill. BC, and therefore the first “Indian” R1a1's from S.Siberia before the 5th mill. BC spoke the same Proto-Proto-Bask/Celtic/Italic agglutinative vernacular as the Balkan invaders ca. 10-8 mill. BC, close in time to the R1a1 Balkans and to the R1b1 Kurganians. The second “Indian” R1a1's from Central Asia spoke a different, the new flexive Proto-IE language. In the author's terminology, Russians are Slavs, and Slavs come in 3 flavors, Eastern
Slavs, Western Slavs, and Northern (or Uralic) Slavs. A more detailed definition can be found in
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Posting clarifications and comments are (in blue italics) and in blue boxes. Page numbers are shown at the beginning of the page in blue. Most of the references on the author's work can be found on the author's homepage http://aklyosov.home.comcast.net/~aklyosov/. |
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217 Summary The data presented below will show several major conclusions: The methods used in the present study are described in the companion article. Results and Discussion: Eurasian R1a1 Populations The “mapping” of the enormous territory from the Atlantic through Russia and India to the Pacific, and from Scandinavia to the Arabian Peninsula, reveals that Haplogroup R1a men are marked with practically the same ancestral haplotype, which is about 4,500 - 4,700 years “old.” through much of its geographic range. Exceptions in Europe are found only in the Balkans (Serbia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Bosnia), where the common ancestor is significantly more ancient, about 11,650±1,550 ybp, and in the Irish, Scottish and Swedish R1a1 populations, which have a significantly “younger” common ancestor, some thousands years “younger” compared with the Russian, the German, and the Poland R1a1 populations. These geographic patterns will be explored below in this section. The haplogroup name R1a1 is used here to mean Haplogroup R-M17, because that is the meaning in nearly all of the referenced articles. The entire map of base (ancestral) haplotypes and their mutations, as well as “ages” of common ancestors of R1a1 haplotypes in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East show that approximately six thousand years ago bearers of R1a1 haplogroup started to migrate from the Balkans in all directions, spreading their haplotypes. A recent excavation of 4,600 year-old R1a1 haplotypes (Haak et al., 2008) revealed their almost exact match to present day R1a1 haplotypes, as it is shown below. Significantly, the oldest R1a population appears to be in Southern Siberia. England and Ireland R1a1 haplotypes The 57 R1a 25-marker haplotype series of English origin (YSearch database) contains ten haplotypes that belong to a DYS388=10 series and was analyzed separately. The remaining 47 haplotypes contain 304 mutations compared to the base haplotype shown
below, which corresponds to 4,125±475 years to a common ancestor in the 95% confidence
interval. The respective haplotype tree is shown in Fig. 3.
The 52 haplotype series of Ireland origin, all with 25 markers (YSearch database) contains 12 haplotypes which belong to a DYS388=10 distinct series as shown in Fig. 4, and was analyzed separately. The remaining 40 haplotypes contain 244 mutations compared to the base haplotype, shown below, which corresponds to 3,850±460 years to a common ancestor. Thus, R1a1 haplotypes sampled on the British Isles point to English and Irish common ancestors who lived 4,125±475 and 3,850±460 years ago. The English base (ancestral) haplotype is as follows 13-25-15-10-11-14-12-12-10-13-11-30-15-9-10-11-11- 24-14
20-32-12-15-15-16 An apparent difference in two alleles between the British and Irish ancestral haplotypes is in fact fairly insignificant, since the respective average alleles are equal to 10.51 and 10.73, and 23.98 and 23.55, respectively. Hence, their ancestral haplotypes are practically the same, within approximately one mutational difference. A DYS388=10 Subfamily of North-Western European R1a1 Haplotypes About 20% of both English and Irish R1a haplotypes have a mutated allele in eighth
position in the FTDNA format (DYS388=12à10), with a common ancestor of that population
who lived 3,575±450 years ago (172 mutations in the 30 25-marker haplotypes with
DYS388=10). 61 of these haplotypes were pooled from a number of European populations (
Fig. 5),
and the tree splits into a relatively younger branch on the left, and the “older” branch
on the lower right-hand side.
This DYS388=10 mutation is observed in northern and western Europe, mainly in England, Ireland, Norway, and to a much lesser degree in Sweden, Denmark, Netherlands and Germany. In areas further east and south that mutation is practically absent. 31 haplotypes on the left-hand side and on the top of the tree (Fig. 5) contain collectively
86 mutations from the base haplotype: The older 30-haplotype branch in the tree provides with the following base DYS388=10
haplotype: These two DYS388=10 base haplotypes differ from each other by less than four mutations, which brings their common ancestor to about 3500 ybp. It is very likely that it is the same common ancestor as that of the right-hand branch in Fig. 5. The upper, “older” base haplotype differs by six mutations on average from the DYS388=12 base haplotypes from the same area (see the English and Irish R1a1 base haplotypes, above). This brings common ancestor to about 5,700±600 ybp. This common ancestor of both the DYS388=12 and DYS388=10 populations lived presumably in
the Balkans (see below) since the Balkan population is the only European R1a1 population
that is that old, for almost two thousand years before bearers of that mutation arrived
to northern and western Europe some 4000 ybp (DYS388=12) and about 3600 ybp (DYS388=10).
This mutation has continued to be passed down through the generations to the present
time. Scotland R1a1 Haplotypes A set of 29 R1a1 25-marker haplotypes from Scotland have the same ancestral haplotype
as those in England and Ireland: Germany R1a1 Haplotypes A 67-haplotype series with 25 markers from Germany revealed the following ancestral haplotype: 13-25-16-10-11-14-12-12-10-13-11-30-15-9-10-11-11- 24-14 20-32-12-15-15-16 There is an apparent mutation in the third allele from the left (in bold) compared with the Isles ancestral R1a1 haplotypes, however, the average value equals to 15.48 for England, 15.33 for Ireland, 15.26 for Scotland, and 15.84 for Germany, so there is only a small difference between these populations. The 67 haplotypes contain 488 mutations, or 0.291±0.013 mutations per marker on average. This value corresponds to 4,700±520 years from a common ancestor in the German territory. These results are supported by the very recent data found during excavation of remains
from several males near Eulau, Germany. Tissue samples from one of them was derived for
the SNP, SRY10831.2 (Haak et al., 2008), so it was from Haplogroup R1a1 and probably
R1a1a as well (the SNPs defining R1a1a were not tested). The skeletons were dated to
4,600 ybp using strontium isotope analysis. The 4600 year old remains yielded some DNA
and a few STRs were detected, yielding the following partial haplotype: Norway and Sweden R1a1 Haplotypes The ancestral R1a1 haplotypes for the Norwegian and Swedish groups are almost the same, and both are similar to the German 25-marker ancestral haplotype. Their 16-and 19-haplotype sets (after DYS388=10 haplotypes were removed, five and one, respectively) contain on average 0.218±0.023 and 0.242±0.023 mutations per marker, respectively, which gives a result of 3,375±490 and 3,825±520 years back to their common ancestors. This is likely the same time span within the error margin. Polish, Czech, and Slovak R1a1 Haplotypes The ancestral haplotypes for the Polish, Czech, and Slovak groups are very similar to each other, having only one insignificant difference in DYS439 (shown in bold). The average value is 10.43 on DYS439 in the Polish group, 10.63 in the Czech and Slovak combined groups. The base haplotype for the 44 Polish haplotypes is:. 13-25-16-10-11-14-12-12- -13-11-30-16-9-10-11-11- 23-14-20-32-12-15-15-16 and for the 27 Czech and Slovak haplotypes it is: 13-25-16-10-11-14-12-12- 13-11-30-16-9-10-11-11- 23-14-20-32-12-15-15-16 The 44 Polish haplotypes have 310 mutations among them, and there are 175 mutations in the 27 Czech-Slovak haplotypes, resulting in 0.282±0.016 and 0.259±0.020 mutations per marker on average, respectively. These values correspond to 4,550±520 and 4,125±430 years back to their common ancestors, respectively, which is very similar to the German TSCA. The Remaining European R1a1 Haplotypes Many European countries are represented by just a few 25-marker haplotypes in the databases. 36 R1a1 haplotypes were collected from the YSearch database where the ancestral origin of the paternal line was from Denmark, Netherlands, Switzerland, Iceland, Belgium, France, Italy, Lithuania, Romania, Albania, Montenegro, Slovenia, Croatia, Spain, Greece, Bulgaria and Moldavia. The respective haplotype tree is shown in Fig. 6. The tree does not show any noticeable anomalies and points at just one common ancestor for all 36 individuals, who had the following base haplotype: 13-25-16-10-11-14-12-12-10-13-11-30-15-9-10-11-11- 24-14-20-32-12-15-15-16 The ancestral haplotype match is exactly the same as those in Germany, Russia (see below), and has quite insignificant deviations from all other ancestral haplotypes considered above, within fractions of mutational differences. All the 36 individuals have 248 mutations in their 25-marker haplotypes, which corresponds to 4,425±520 years to the common ancestor. This is quite a common value for European R1a1 population. Russia and Ukraine R1a1 Haplotypes The haplotype tree containing 110 of 25-marker haplotypes collected over 10 time zones
from the Western Ukraine to the Pacific Ocean and from the northern tundra to Central
Asia (Tadzhikistan and Kyrgyzstan) is shown in Fig. 7.
The ancestral (base) haplotype for the haplotype tree is The 110 Russian/Ukranian haplotypes contain 804 mutations from the base haplotype, or
0.292±0.010 mutations per marker, resulting in 4,750±500 years from a common ancestor.
The degree of asymmetry of this series of haplotypes is exactly 0.50, and does not affect
the calculations. R1a1 haplotypes of individuals who considered themselves of Ukrainian and Russian origin, present a practically random geographic sample. For example, the haplotype tree contains two local Central Asian haplotypes (a Tadzhik and a Kyrgyz, haplotypes 133 and 127, respectively), as well as a local of a Caucasian Mountains Karachaev tribe (haplotype 166), though the male ancestry of the last one is unknown beyond his present tribal affiliation. They did not show any unusual deviations from other R1a1 haplotypes. Apparently, they are derived from the same common ancestor as are all other individuals of the R1a1 set. The literature frequently refers to a statement that R1a1- M17 originated from a “refuge” in the present Ukraine about 15,000 years ago, following the Last Glacial Maximum. This statement was never substantiated by any actual data related to haplotypes and haplogroups. It is just repeated over and over through a relay of references to references. The oldest reference is apparently that of Semino et al. (2000) which states that “this scenario is supported by the finding that the maximum variation for microsatellites linked to Eu19 [R1a1] is found in Ukraine” (Santachiara-Benerecetti, unpublished data). Now we know that this statement is incorrect. No calculations were provided in (Semino et al, 2000) or elsewhere which would explain the dating of 15,000 years. Then, a paper by Wells et al. (2001) states “M17, a descendant of M173, is apparently
much younger, with an inferred age of ~ 15,000 years.” No actual data or calculations are
provided. The subsequent sentence in the paper says, “It must be noted that these age
estimates are dependent on many, possibly invalid, assumptions about mutational
processes and population structure.” This sentence has turned out to be valid in the
sense that the estimate was inaccurate and overestimated by about 300% from the results
obtained here. However, see the results below for the Chinese and southern Siberian
haplotypes, below. A more detailed consideration of R1a1 haplotypes in the Eastern European Plain and across Europe and Eurasia in general has shown that R1a1 haplogroup appeared in Europe between 12 and 10 thousand years before present, right after the Last Glacial Maximum, and after about 6,000 ybp had populated Europe, though, probably, with low density. After 4,500 ybp R1a1 practically disappeared from Europe, incidentally, along with I1. Maybe more incidentally, it corresponded with the time period of populating of Europe with R1b1b2. Only those R1a1 who migrated to the Eastern European Plain from Europe around 6,000-5,000 ybp, stayed. They had expanded to the East, established on their way a number of archaeological cultures, including the Andronovo culture, which has embraced Northern Kazakhstan, Central Asia and South Ural and Western Siberia, and about 3600 ybp they migrated to India and Iran as the Aryans. Those who left behind, on the Eastern European Plain, re-populated Europe between 3200 and 2500 years bp, and stayed mainly in the Eastern Europe (present-day Poland, Germany, Czech, Slovak, etc. regions). Among them were carriers of the newly discovered R1a1-M458 subclade (Underhill et al, 2009).
231 India R1a1 Haplotypes The YSearch database contains 22 of the 25-marker R1a1 haplotypes from India, including a
few haplotypes from Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Their ancestral haplotype follows: The India (Regional) Y-project at FTDNA (Rutledge, 2009) contains 15 haplotypes with 25 markers, eight of which are not listed in the YSearch database. Combined with others from Ysearch, a set of 30 haplotypes is available. Their ancestral haplotype is exactly the same as shown above. Fig. 8 shows the respective haplotypes tree. All 30 Indian R1a1 haplotypes contain 191 mutations, that is 0.255±0.018 mutations per marker. It is statistically lower (with 95% confidence interval) than 0.292±0.014 mutations per marker in the Russian haplotypes and corresponds to 4,050±500 years from a common ancestor of the Indian haplotypes, compared to 4,750±500 years for the ancient “Russian” TSCA. Archaeological studies have been conducted since the 1990’s in the South Ural’s Arkaim
settlement and have revealed that the settlement was abandoned 3,600 years ago. The
population apparently moved to northern India. That population belonged to Andronovo
archaeological culture. Excavations of some sites of Andronovo culture, the oldest dating
between 3,800 and 3,400 ybp, showed that nine inhabitants out of ten shared the R1a1
haplogroup and haplotypes (Bouakaze et al., 2007; Keyser et al, 2009). The base haplotype
is as follows: In a recent paper (Keyser et al, 2009) the authors have extended the earlier analysis and determined 17-marker haplotypes for 10 Siberian individuals assigned to Andronovo, Tagar, and Tashtyk archaeological cultures (See Keyser et al, 2009 Sibirian Kurgan Y- and mt-DNA .
Nine of them shared the R1a1 haplogroup (one was of Haplogroup CxC3). The authors have reported that “none of the Y-STR haplotypes perfectly matched those included in the databases,” and for some of those haplotypes “even the search based on the 9-loci minimal haplotype was fruitless.” However, as shows, all of the haplotypes nicely fit to the 17-marker haplotype tree of 252 Russian R1a1 haplotypes (with a common ancestor of 4,750±490 ybp, calculated using these 17-marker haplotypes [Klyosov, 2009b]), a list of which was recently published (Roewer et al, 2008). All seven Andronovo, Tagar and Tashtyk haplotypes (the other two were incomplete) are located in the upper right hand side corner in Fig. 9, and the respective branch on the tree is shown in Fig. 10. As one can see, the ancient R1a1 haplotypes excavated in Siberia, are comfortably located on the tree next to the haplotypes from the Russian cities and regions named in the legend to Fig. 10. The above data provide rather strong evidence that the R1a1 tribe migrated from Europe to
the East between 5,000 and 3,600 ybp. The pattern of this migration is exhibited as
follows: Since we have mentioned Haplogroup R1a1 in India and in the archaeological cultures north
of it, it is worthwhile to consider the question of where and when R1a1 haplotypes
appeared in India. On the one hand, it is rather obvious from the above, that
R1a1
haplotypes were brought to India around 3500 ybp from what is now Russia. The R1a1
bearers, known later as the Aryans, brought to India not only their haplotypes and the
haplogroup, but also their language, thereby closing the loop, or building the linguistic
and cultural bridge between India (and Iran) and Europe, and possibly creating the
Indo-European family of languages. On the other hand, there is evidence that some Indian
R1a1 haplotypes show a high variance, exceeding that in Europe (Kivisild et al, 2003;
Sengupta et al, 2006; Sharma et al, 2009; Thanseem et al, 2009; Fornarino et al, 2009),
thereby antedating the 4000-year-old migration from the north. However, there is a way to resolve the
conundrum. It seems that there are two quite distinct sources of Haplogroup R1a1 in India. One, indeed, was probably brought from the north by the Aryans. However, the most ancient source of R1a1 haplotypes appears to be provided by people who now live in China. In an article by Bittles et al (2007) entitled “Physical anthropology and ethnicity in Asia: the transition from anthropometry to genome-based studies” a list of frequencies of Haplogroup R1a1 is given for a number of Chinese populations, however, haplotypes were not provided. The corresponding author, Professor Alan H. Bittles, kindly sent me the following list of 31 five-marker haplotypes (presented here in the format DYS19, 388, 389-1, 389-2, 393), in Table 3. The haplotype tree is shown in Fig. 11. These 31 5-marker haplotypes contain 99 mutations from the base haplotype
(in the FTDNA format) Since haplotypes descended from such a ancient common ancestor have many mutations, which makes their base (ancestral) haplotypes rather uncertain, the ASD permutational method was employed for the Chinese set of haplotypes (Part I). The ASD permutational method does not need a base haplotype and it does not require a correction for back mutations. For the given series of 31 five-marker haplotypes the sum of squared differences between each allele in each marker equals to 10,184. It should be divided by the square of a number of haplotypes in the series (961), by a number of markers in the haplotype (5) and by 2, since the squared differences between alleles in each marker were taken both ways. It gives an average number of mutations per marker of 1.060. After division of this value by the mutation rate for the five-marker haplotypes (0.00135 mut/marker/generation for 25 years per generation), we obtain 19,625±2,800 years to a common ancestor. It is within the margin of error with that calculated by the linear method, as shown above. It is likely that Haplogroup R1a1 had appeared in South Siberia around 20 thousand years ago, and its bearers split. One migration group headed West, and had arrived to the Balkans around 12 thousand years ago (see below). Another group had appeared in China some 21 thousand years ago. Apparently, bearers of R1a1 haplotypes made their way from China to South India between five and seven thousand years ago, and those haplotypes were quite different compared to the Aryan ones, or the “Indo-European” haplotypes. This is seen from the following data.
Thanseem et al
(2006) found 46 R1a1 haplotypes of six markers each in three different tribal population
of Andra Pradesh, South India (tribes Naikpod, Andh, and Pardhan). The haplotypes are
shown in a haplotype tree in The 46 haplotypes contain 126 mutations, so there were
0.457±0.050 mutations per marker. This gives 7,125±950 years to a common ancestor. The
base (ancestral) haplotype of those populations in the FTDNA format is as follows: 110 of 10-marker R1a1 haplotypes of various Indian populations, both tribal and Dravidian
and Indo-European castes, listed in (Sengupta et al, 2006) shown in a haplotype tree in
Figure 13, contain 344 mutations, that is 0.313±0.019 mutations per marker. It gives
5,275±600 years to a common ancestor. The base (ancestral) haplotype of those
populations in the FTDNA format is as follows: For a comparison, let us consider Pakistani R1a1 haplotypes listed in the article by
Sengupta (2003) and shown in Fig. 14. The 42 haplotypes contain 166 mutations, which gives
0.395±0.037 mutations per marker, and 7,025±890 years to a common ancestor. This value
fits within the margin of error to the “South-Indian” TSCA of 7,125±950 ybp. The base
haplotype was as follows:
Finally, we will consider Central Asian R1a1 haplotypes listed in the same paper by
Sengupta (2006). Ten haplotypes contain only 25 mutations, which gives 0.250±0.056
mutations per haplotype, and 4050±900 years to a common ancestor. It is the same value that we have
found for the “Indo-European” Indian haplotypes. The above suggests that there are two different subsets of Indian R1a1 haplotypes. One was brought by European bearers known as the Aryans, seemingly on their way through Central Asia, in the 2nd millennium BCE, another, much more ancient, made its way apparently through China, and arrived in India earlier than seven thousand years ago. R1a1 Haplotypes of the Arabian Peninsula Sixteen R1a1 10-marker haplotypes from Qatar and United Arab Emirates have been recently
published (Cadenas et al., 2008). They split into two branches, with base haplotypes Since a common ancestor of R1a1 haplotypes in Armenia and Anatolia lived 4,500±1,040 and 3,700±550 ybp, respectively (Klyosov, 2008b), it does not conflict with 3,750±825 ybp in the Arabian peninsula. The Balkan Ancient Branch: the Oldest Trace of R1a Haplotype in Europe? A series of 67 haplotypes of Haplogroup R1a1 from the Balkans was published (Barac et
al., 2003a, 2003b; Pericic et al., 2005). They were presented in a 9-marker format only.
The respective haplotype tree is shown in Fig. 15. One can see a remarkable branch on the left-hand side of the tree which stands out as an “extended and fluffy” one. These are typically features of a very old branch compared with others on the same tree. Also, a common feature of ancient haplotype trees is that they are typically “heterogeneous” ones and consist of a number of branches. The tree in Fig. 15 includes a rather small branch of twelve haplotypes on top of the tree,
which contains only 14 mutations. This results in 0.130±0.035 mutations per marker, or
1,850±530 years to a common ancestor. Its base haplotype
The wide 27-haplotype branch on the right contains 0.280±0.034 mutations per marker,
which is rather typical for R1a1 haplotypes in Europe. It gives typical in kind 4,350±680
years to a common ancestor of the branch. Its base haplotype
The “extended and fluffy” 13-haplotype branch on the left contains the following
haplotypes: The “quadratic method” (ASD) gives the following “base haplotype” (the unknown alleles
are eliminated here, and the last allele is presented as the DYS389-2 notation): A sum of square deviations from the above haplotype results in 103 mutations total, including reverse mutations “hidden” in the linear method. Seventy “observed” mutations in the linear method amount to only 68% of the “actual” mutations including reverse mutations. Since all 13 haplotypes contain 117 markers, the average number of mutations per marker is 0.880±0.081, which corresponds to 0.880/0.00189 = 466±62 generations or 11,650±1,550 years to a common ancestor. 0.00189 is the mutation rate (in mutations per marker per generation) for the given 9-marker haplotypes (companion paper, Part I). A calculation of 11,650±1,550 years to a common ancestor is practically the same as 11,425±1,780 years, obtained with linear method and corrected for reverse mutations. The all-permutation “quadratic” method (Adamov & Klyosov, 2008) gives 2,680 as a sum of
all square differences in all permutations between alleles. When divided by N2 (N =
number of haplotypes, that is 13), by 9 (number of markers in haplotype), and by 2 (since
deviation were both “up” and “down”), we obtain an average number of mutations per marker
equal to 0.881. It is near exactly equal to 0.880 obtained by the quadratic method above.
Naturally, it gives again 0.881/0.00189 = 466±62 generations or 11,650±1,550 years to a
common ancestor of the R1a1 group in the Balkans. These results suggest that the first bearers of the R1a1 haplogroup in Europe lived in the Balkans (Serbia, Kosovo, Bosnia, Macedonia) between 10 and 13 thousand ybp. It was shown below that Haplogroup R1a1 has appeared in Asia, apparently in China or rather South Siberia, around 20,000 ybp. It appears that some of its bearers migrated to the Balkans in the following 7-10 thousand years. It was found (Klyosov, 2008a) that Haplogroup R1b appeared about 16,000 ybp, apparently in Asia, and it also migrated to Europe in the following 11-13 thousand years. It is of a certain interest that a common ancestor of the ethnic Russians of R1b is dated 6775±830 ybp (Klyosov, to be published), which is about two to three thousand years earlier than most of the European R1b common ancestors. It is plausible that the Russian R1b have descended from the Kurgan archaeological culture.
The data shown above suggests that only about 6,000-5,000 ybp bearers of R1a1, presumably in the Balkans, began to mobilize and migrate to the west toward the Atlantics, to the north toward the Baltic Sea and Scandinavia, to the east to the Eastern European Plains and steppes, to the south to Asia Minor, the Middle East, and far south to the Arabian Sea. All of those local R1a1 haplotypes point to their common ancestors who lived around 4,800 to 4,500 ybp. On their way through the Eastern European Plains and steppes the R1a1 tribe presumably formed the Andronovo archaeological culture, apparently domesticated the horse, advanced to Central Asia and formed the “Aryan population” which dated to about 4,500 ybp. They then moved to the Ural mountains about 4,000 ybp and migrated to India as the Aryans circa 3,600-3,500 ybp. Presently, 16% of the male Indian population, or approximately 100 million people, bear the R1a1 haplogroup’s SNP mutation (SRY10831.2), with their common ancestor of 4,050±500 ybp, of times back to the Andronovo archaeological culture and the Aryans in the Eastern European Plains and steppes . The current “Indo-European” Indian R1a1 haplotypes are practically indistinguishable from Russian, Ukrainian, and Central Asian R1a1 haplotypes, as well as from many West and Central European R1a1 haplotypes. These populations speak languages of the Indo-European language family.
The next section focuses on some trails of R1a1 in India, an “Aryan trail.” The Chenchu R1a1 Haplotypes Kivisild et al. (2003) reported that eleven out of 41 individuals tested in the Chenchu, an australoid tribal group from southern India, are in Haplogroup R1a1 (or 27% of the total). It is tempting to associate this with the Aryan influx into India, which occurred some 3,600-3,500 ybp. However, questionable calculations of time spans to a common ancestor of R1a1 in India, and particularly in the Chenchu (Kivisild et al., 2003; Sengupta et al., 2006; Thanseem et al, 2006; Sahoo et al, 2006; Sharma et al, 2009; Fornarino et al, 2009) using methods of population genetics rather than those of DNA genealogy have precluded an objective and balanced discussion of the events and their consequences. The eleven R1a1 haplotypes of the Chenchus (Kivisild et al., 2003) do not provide good statistics; however, they can allow a reasonable estimate of a time span to a common ancestor for these 11 individuals. Logically, if these haplotypes are more or less identical, with just a few mutations in them, a common ancestor would likely have lived within a thousand or two thousands of ybp. Conversely, if these haplotypes are all mutated, and there is no base (ancestral)
haplotype among them, a common ancestor lived thousands ybp. Even two base (identical)
haplotypes among 11 would tentatively give The eleven Chenchu haplotypes have seven identical (base) six-marker haplotypes (in the
format of DYS 19-388-290-391-392-393, commonly employed in earlier scientific
publications): These identical haplotypes are represented by a “comb” in Fig 16. If all seven identical
haplotypes are derived from the same common ancestor as the other four mutated
haplotypes, the common ancestor would have lived on average of only 51 generations bp, or
less than 1300 years ago [ln(11/7)/0.0088 = 51], with a certain margin of error (see
estimates below). In fact, the Chenchu R1a1 haplotypes represent two lineages, one
3,200±1,900 years old and the other only 350±350 years old, starting from around the 17th
century CE. The tree in Fig 16 shows these two lineages.
A quantitative description of these two lineages is as follows. Despite the
11-haplotype series containing seven identical haplotypes, which in the case of one common
ancestor for the series, would have indicated 51 generations (with a proper margin of
error) from a common ancestor, the same 11 haplotypes contain 9 mutations from the above
base haplotype. The linear method gives 9/11/0.0088 = 93 generations to a common ancestor
(both values without a correction for back mutations). Because there is a significant
mismatch between the 51 and 93 generations, one can conclude that the 11 haplotypes
descended from more than one common ancestor. Clearly, the Chenchu R1a1 haplotype set
points to a minimum of two common ancestors, which is confirmed by the haplotype tree (Fig. 16). A recent branch includes eight haplotypes, seven being base haplotypes, and one with
only one mutation. The older branch, contains three haplotypes containing three mutations
from their base haplotype: Considering that the Aryan (R1a1) migration to northern India took place about 3,600-3,500 ybp, it is quite plausible to attribute the appearance of R1a1 in the Chenchu by 3,200±1,900 ybp to the Aryans. The origin of the influx of Chenchu R1a1 haplotypes around the 17th century is likely found in this passage excerpted from (Kivisild et al., 2003): “Chenchus were first described as shy hunter-gatherers by the Mohammedan army in 1694.” Native American haplotypes of Haplogroup Q1a3a (end of citation) |