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Descendants of Zohrab of the Clan of the Manuchariants
Ancestral Genetic Pre-History
Peter Douglas Zohrab has had genetic testing done (by more than one
company) of his male-line (Y-chromosome) ancestry:
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- Then Family Tree DNA carried
out a P25 test, and found that he (and his male-line ancestors) were
part of Haplogroup R1b1.
- Next, Richard Stevens paid for Peter Zohrab to have the P312 test
with Family Tree DNA, in order to see if Peter Zohrab was eligible for
membership of his group, which was about the
genetics of supposed Indo-European speakers. Peter Zohrab
was found to be P312- on that test, and therefore ineligible for membership
of that project group.
- Richard Stevens then referred Peter on to two further groups, run
by Mark Arslan and Vince Vizachero, respectively.
- Peter joined the group run by Vince Vizachero, which is for people
both P312- and U106-, and which contributed to the cost of a Deep
Clade-R test for him. This confirmed that he (and his male-line
ancestors) were, more precisely, part of the R1b1b2a1
haplogroup. Later, this was narrowed down to R1b1b2a1a.
- Then Peter Zohrab got Ancestry.com
DNA to carry out a 46-marker test of
his Family Tree DNA, so that he would have more meaningful results to
contribute to the
Armenian research group, which he joined, and which was run by Mark
Arslan, and also so that he would have more meaningful results to compare
with other potential family members in his own Zohrab
project.
- Later, Peter got Family Tree
DNA to carry out a 67-marker test, both
for the above reasons and because Family Tree DNA and its associated
research groups did not recognise results produced by other companies.
N.B. Males can get both their male-line (Y-chromosome) and female-line
(mitochondrial DNA) analysed, but the Genographic Project only does
the male line for you if you put yourself down as a male. A cynic
like me would say that that's because women can only get their female
line done, having no Y-chromosome -- if it were the other way around,
women would be getting both results for the price of one! The Genographic
Project suggested (by email) that I could put myself down as a female
and pay for another test, in which case I would get results for my
female line as well -- or a female relative (a sister or mother --
but a maternal grandmother or double-cousin would presumably do) could
get hers done.
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