The day after my birthday on 5 November I received the following E-mail.
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“Hi,
Ancient DNA sample from 1110-1270 cal BC (referred as BR2) from Ludas-Varjú-dűlő site in Hungary was sequenced by authors of the research paper 'Genome flux and stasis in a five millennium transect of European prehistory' and also provided the raw data. I converted this into formats familiar to genetic genealogists (or genotyped) which can be downloaded from y-str.org. I also filtered with SNPs tested by DNA testing companies like FTDNA, 23andMe and Ancestry and upload to GEDMatch as kit# F999933 to see if there are any matches. It is interesting to see there are indeed several matches.
I posted the following blog: Ancient sample BR2 matches living people
Other ancient DNA samples can also be found here - www.y-str.org/p/ancient-dna.html
I am sending this email to people who match significantly with this ancient DNA (above 500 SNPs / 5 cM threshold in GEDmatch) . I thought you might be interested in knowing that you (or one of the kit you manage) matches an ancient DNA.
Best Regards,
Felix Chandrakumar”
My match is 7.6 cM on Chromosome #1
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While I am not sure exactly what the major significance of this information is, I know that the essence of the e-mail and blog posting is that fragments or small segments of Ancient DNA has been found in modern day population and that my genetic profile contains this Ancient Hungarian DNA.
If interested, you can compare your data on GEDmatch to this ancient Hungarian genome.
Go to GEDmatch.com
Log in
Do a one-to-one-Comparison
Enter your Kit # as the 1st Kit
Enter F999933 as Kit #2
There will be an Ancient DNA project that you can join sometime in the near future. Currently, FTDNA has all Ancient DNA locked; but once released you will be able to join the project.
Related Articles:
- http://www.y-str.org/2014/11/ancient-hungarian-genome-bronze-age-br2.html
- http://www.khazaria.com/genetics/hungarians.html
- http://www.fc.id.au/2014/11/ancient-hungarian-br2-dna-in-ftdna.html
- http://dienekes.blogspot.com/2014/10/ancient-dna-from-prehistoric.html
If you haven't posted your Ancestry, 23andMe and Family Finder data on GEDmatch I highly recommend you so so. It's free and it will increase the possibilities of connecting with relatives.
