Acacian -
I meant to comment on your suggestion re: dna.
The group you mentioned is partnering with National Geographic in a study that has been going on for several years. Nat Geo is attempting to test 100,000 people, and the cost is about $100 for the person:
genographic.nationalgeographic.com/genographic/index.htmlwww.familytreedna.com/public/mtU5a/default.aspxI know a Morgie who participated and was found to have haplogroup U5, the oldest dna group that is still human. Below is a description of that bloodline. It sounds very much like what Dr. Staninger describes as "the Viking bloodline" that is the most susceptible to getting Morgellons.
mtDNA Haplogroup U5a
Group Administrator: Ruth Gonzalez Email: isabelanyc@aol.com
Project Surnames
Altreche, Alvarez, Amado, Barreto, Bumgardner,
Burkhardt, Campbell, Cates, Cazorla, Churchman, Cocke, Collins, Daniel, Downer, Dudiak, Fagerheim, Feliciano, Garcia, Gaudette, Gilchrist, Gonzalez, Gough, Gould, Greeley, Grey, Hagstrom, Haplogroup_U5, Hightower, Holzgrafe, House, Jimenez, Johnson, Kloetzli, Kube, Lampe, Leder, Lehtoma, Lopez, Lynch, McCormick, Melson, Mendez, Mucenieks, Munaretti, Navak, O'Boylan, Ocasio, Pappas, Perez, Ramos, Rosado, Schilke, Skenie, Starkins, Stepien, Tilroe, Tims, U5_Haplogroup, Valentin, Villamarzo, Villanueva, Wahl, Walker, Wiskup, Zincavage, Zurcher
Current balance: $0.00
Group General Fund
Type Amount Date Donor Note KitNum Donation Type
Debit $0.00 7/22/2009 D6404 Multi Kit Order 159591 Unknown
Project Background
All participants of the National Geographic Genographic DNA Project who were assigned to Haplogroup U5 are welcome to join the mtDNA Haplogroup U5a Project.
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www.myheritage.com/U5 is a very diverse and interesting haplogroup. Our member's maternal country of Origin are from Czech Republic, England, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Puerto Rico, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States and Wales.
We are known as the Ursula Clan.
Haplogroup U5 and subgroups
Source from: wikipedia
The oldest mtDNA in Europe that's human, Homo Sapien and not Neanderthal or other archaic individual is U5. The age of U5 is estimated at 50,000 but could be as old as 60,500 years. The first place scientists find U5 in Europe is in Cyrenaica and artifacts are found in Iberia, as it's the first in Europe and evolved in Europe.
The presence of haplogroup U5 in Europe pre-dates the expansion of agriculture in Europe. Bryan Sykes' popular book The Seven Daughters of Eve says it shows up 45,000-50,000 years ago in Delphi, Greece and named the originator of haplogroup U5 Ursula. It shows That U5 is the first out of Africa into Europe, and that it shows up as the first Europeans in two places, Delphi and Spain around 50,000 years ago.
By another source haplogroup U5, age is estimated at about 52,000 kya, being the oldest subclade of haplogroup U. Haplogroup U5 and its subclades are most common in Sami, Finns, and Estonians, but it is spread widely at lower levels throughout Europe. U5 is found also in small frequencies and at much lower diversity in near East suggesting back-migration of people from northern Europe to south.
Haplogroup U5a1a lineage within haplogroup U5 arose in Europe approximately 30,000 years ago, and is mainly found in northwest Europe. In the context of its rather ancient origin, the modern distribution of haplogroup U5a1 suggests that individuals bearing this haplogroup were part the initial expansion tracking the retreat of ice sheets from Europe. Bryan Sykes in his Seven Daughters of Eve book named this mtDNA haplogroup Ursula.
U5 had a common ancestor with its sister group, U6. What's interesting is that U5 and U6 are sister mtDNA groups with a common ancestor in N. Africa. Each mtDNA group has a sister group. A large proportion of Canary Islander are U6. The medieval Guanches of the Canary Islands also had U6. There was a lot of interbreeding in paleolithic times between U5 and U6. The Berbers are high in U6 mtDNA today.
U5 is the most ancient mtDNA in Europe (50,000 years to 60,500).
Haplogroup H
In human mitochodrial genetics, Haplogroup H is a human mitochodrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroup.The Cambridge Reference Sequence (CRS), the human mitochondrial sequence to which all other sequences are compared, belongs to haplogroup H.
About one half of Europeans are of mt-DNA haplogroup H. The haplogroup is also common in North Africa and the Middle East. The majority of the European populations have an overall haplogroup H frequency of 40%–50%. Frequencies decrease in the southeast of the continent, reaching 20% in the Near East and Caucasus, and 10% in the Persian Gulf, Northern India and Central Asia.
In his popular book The Seven Daughters of Eve, Bryan Sykes named the originator of this mtDNA haplogroup Helena.
Origins
Several independent studies conclude that haplogroup H probably evolved in West Asia c. 30,000 years ago having arrived to Europe c. 20-25,000 years ago, spreading rapidly to the southwest of the continent. This would make its arrival roughly contemporary with Gravettian culture.
They are also coincident in that the spread of subclades H1, H3 and the sister haplogroupV reflect a second intra-European expansion from the Franco-Cantabrian region after the last glacial maximum c. 13,000 years ago.
Among all these clades, the subhaplogroups H1 and H3 have been subject to a more detailed study and would be associated to the Magdalenian expansion from SW Europe c. 13,000 years ago.
Subhaplogroup H1 encompasses an important fraction of Western European mtDNA, reaching its peak among Basques (27.8%) and being also very important among other Iberians, North Africans and Sardinians. It is anyhow above 10% in many other parts of Europe (France, British islands, Alps, large portions of Eastern Europe) and above 5% in nearly all the continent. Its subclade H1b is most common in Eastern Europe and NW Siberia.
Subhaplogroup H3 represents a smaller fraction of European genome than H1 but has a somewhat similar distribution with peak among Basques (13.9%), Galicians (8.3%) and Sardinians (8.5%). Its importance decreases towards the northeast of the continent though. The remaining subclades are much less frequent:
Subhaplogroup H5 may have evolved in West Asia, where is more frequent in its non-derived form. But its subclade H5a is most common in the Central European plain.
Subhaplogroups H2, H6 and H8 are somewhat common in Eastern Europe and the Caucasus. They may be the most common H subclades among Central Asians and have also been found in West Asia.
Subhaplogroups H4, H7 and H13 are present in both Europe and West Asia, the latter being also found in the Caucasus. They are quite rare.
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