Amateur Crowdsourcing Finds Regional Sub-Types Of Native American Y-DNA C-P39

Four years of work by participants in FamilyTreeDNA has unearthed several regional sub-types of Y-DNA C-P39 which is a Native American clade of Y-DNA C (which is rare in Native Americans, most of whom are Y-DNA Q):

 A summary of new C-P39 Y DNA project subclades follows: 

• North American Appalachian Region: C-P39+ C-BY1360+

• North American Canada – Multiple Surnames: C-P39+ C-Z30765+

• North American Canada – Multiple Surnames: C-P39+ C-Z30750+

• North American Canada: Acadia (Nova Scotia): C-P39+ C-Z30750+

• North American Canada: Acadia (Nova Scotia): C-P39+ C-Z30754+

• North American Southwest Region: CP39+ C-Z30747+

The following SNP (BY18405+) was found to have been shared only by two C-P39 project members in the entire Big Y system, as reported here:

• North American Canada Newfoundland: C-P39+ C-BY18405+

• North American Canada: Gaspe, QC: C-P39+ C-BY18405+

The ancestors of two families represented in the study, one in the Pacific Northwest and another in the North American Southwest did not experience any mutations in the New World and Big Y results are within the current genetic boundaries of the C-P39 SNP haplogroup as noted.