Haplogroup Q-L804 (Y-DNA)

Haplogroup Q-L804
Possible time of origin3,000-15,000 years ago
Possible place of originBeringia: Either East Asia or North Asia
AncestorQ-L54
DescendantsQ-Y9052, Q-A13540, Q-JN15, Q-Y16137, Q-Y7582
Defining mutationsL804 (rs1952836)

Haplogroup Q-L804 (Y-DNA) is a Y-chromosome DNA haplogroup. Haplogroup Q-L804 is a subclade of Haplogroup Q-L54. Currently Q-L804 is Q1b1a1b below Q1b-M346.[1]

In 2000 the research group at Oxford University headed by Dr. Agnar Helgason first discovered the haplotype that was much later to become known as Q-L804. In 2000 the strange haplotype was called “branch-A” (i.e. R1b-branch A) and it was found uniquely on Iceland and Scandinavia.[2] Later studies completed the genetic bridge by determining that Q-L804 is related to Q-M242 populations of Native Americans, Turkmen (Q-M3) and Siberian populations of the Selkup and Ket people (Q-L54*xM3).[3] [4]

  1. ^ Y-DNA Haplogroup Q and its Subclades - 2019, ISOGG
  2. ^ Helgason, Agnar; Stefánsson, Kári (September 2000). "Estimating Scandinavian and Gaelic Ancestry in the Male Settlers of Iceland". American Journal of Human Genetics. 67 (3): 697–717. doi:10.1086/303046. PMC 1287529. PMID 10931763.
  3. ^ Kivisild, Toomas (March 2017). "The study of human Y chromosome variation through ancient DNA". Human Genetics. 136 (5): 529–546. doi:10.1007/s00439-017-1773-z. PMC 5418327. PMID 28260210.
  4. ^ Karafet, Tatiana M.; Osipova, Ludmila P.; Savina, Olga V.; Hallmark, Brian; Hammer, Michael F. (2018). "Siberian genetic diversity reveals complex origins of the Samoyedic-speaking populations". American Journal of Human Biology. 30 (6): e23194. doi:10.1002/ajhb.23194. ISSN 1042-0533. PMID 30408262.