Several scientists have created their own theories about the Y-chromosomal haplogroup (and therefore the patrilineal ancestry) of Genghis Khan. In Human Genetics, J2 haplogroup (AKA J-M172) is among the most frequent Y DNA haplogroups in the Middle East and in the Arab World. The 20th Dynasty of Egypt (1189-1077 BCE) started with Setnakhte and counted nine kings named Ramesses, from III to XI. 1972), famous among others for his roles in Good Will Hunting, Shakespeare in Love, Pearl Harbor, Daredevil and Hollywoodland, and his brother Casey Affleck, an actor, film director, screenwriter, and producer, were identified as members of haplogroup J2a1d (M319) through Ben's DNA test, which was revealed by the PBS television series Finding Your Roots. No Neolithic sample from Central or South Asia has been tested to date, but the present geographic distribution of haplogroup J2 suggests that it could initially have dispersed during the Neolithic from the Zagros mountains and northern Mesopotamia across the Iranian plateau to South Asia and Central Asia, and across the Caucasus to Russia (Volga-Ural). The presence of these haplogroups and admixtures in southern Italy almost certainly represent Kura-Araxes ancestry inherited from Minoan Greeks from the Aegean islands. [25][26], The Y haplogroup of Richard III, last king of the House of York and last of the House of Plantagenet, was identified as Y-DNA G-P287, in contrast to the Y haplotypes of the putative modern relatives. The Hamilton DNA Project compared the Y-DNA of four descendants of Alexander Hamilton (1755-1804), one of the a Founding Fathers of the United States of America. Lyndon B. Johnson (1908-1973), the 36th President of the United States, was identified as a member of haplogroup E1b1b1 through the Johnson/Johnston/Johnstone DNA Surname Project. The Grant DNA Project identified the main lineage of Clan Grant descending from Duncan Grant of Freuchie (c. 1413-1485), 1st Laird of Freuchie and other early chiefs as belonging to R1b-P312 > DF19 > DF88 > Z17274. The PBS TV series Faces of America disclosed that he belonged to Y-DNA haplogroup O1a1. The M4 Sherman, the most widely used medium tank by the Allies in World War II, was named after General Sherman. This includes several cadet branches. 1928) is an American singersongwriter, composer, record producer and pianist. [63], Y Haplogroup C3b2b1* (C-M401*, (xF5483) has been identified as a possible marker of the Aisin Gioro (who were founders of the Qing dynasty) and is found in ten different ethnic minorities in northern China, but completely absent from Han Chinese. 3 Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), the famous Russian writer 4 Ken Nordtvedt, American physicist and one of the best known genetic genealogist today. In 2005 a study by Professor of Human Genetics Bryan Sykes of Oxford University led to the conclusion that Somerled has possibly 500,000 living descendants. The Y-DNA analysis established that The royal male lineage belonged to Y-haplogroup R1b. He served as the first and sixth post-colonial Governor of Virginia. He almost surely belongs to a branch under Q-Y2200. 1969), most famous for playing Chandler Bing in the sitcom Friends, probably belongs to haplogroup R1b-U152 > L2 > Z49 > Z142 > CTS2819 based on results from members of the Perry Y-DNA Project (Family 7). 1959) is a Bosnian Serb politician, currently serving as the Serb member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the collective federal head of state and is also its chairman. [44], Doras Folger, one of Benjamin Franklin's mother Abiah Lee Folger's six sisters, passed on her mtDNA to her 9th-great-granddaughter, Charlene Chambers King, indicating that Franklin belonged to mitochondrial haplogroup V, with the following mutations: T16298C, 315.1C, 309.1C, A263G, and T72C. Mulders contradicted interpretations of his research by some media outlets, which claimed that Hitler definitely had Jewish ancestry. Some of the most notable clan members include the 15th President of the United States, James Buchanan (1791-1868), and American political commentator Pat Buchanan (b. The ancestral lineage of Lowland Scottish Clan Armstrong appears to be R1b-P312 > FGC84729 > ZZ37 > ZZ38 > Z30597 > Z30600 > Z39305 > A9439 > FT275048 according to the Armstrong Y-DNA Project. Ashkenazi Y-DNA Haplogroup J2. [citation needed] Dr. Moore's results examined some different parts of DNA (loci) from the result given here. [27], In order to verify whether the body of a woman entombed near Sweyn II of Denmark in Roskilde Cathedral is that of his mother Estrid, mtDNA from pulp of teeth from each of the two bodies was extracted and analysed. The Habsburgs provided all the Holy Roman Emperors but one from 1440 until the dissolution of the empire in 1806. Based on 13 STR markers tested his haplogroup can be assigned as E1b1a. [39], Edward IV of England and his brother Richard III of England, both sons of Cecily Neville, Duchess of York, would have shared the same mtDNA haplogroup J1c2c. According to the Boyle DNA Project, the Earls of Glasgow belongs to R1b-DF27 > Z196 > SRY2627 > BY3222. Chromo 2 Y-DNA Y-SNPs covered from the current research tree. His lineage was identified (group B) in the Forrest/Forrester DNA Project, which makes him a member of R1b-U106 > S263 > S499 > L48 > Z9 > Z30 > Z349 > Z2 > Z7 > S5945 > FGC17344 > Y28576 > FGC51332. 1967), best known for being the primary anchor of the CNN news show Anderson Cooper 360, belongs to haplogroup R1a according to the PBS TV series Finding Your Roots. Gjergj Kastrioti Sknderbe, also known as Skanderbeg (1405-1468), was an Albanian feudal lord and military commander who led a rebellion against the Ottoman Empire in what is today Albania, North Macedonia, Greece, Kosovo, Montenegro and Serbia. His father adopted the surname Downey, but before that his paternal ancestors were called Elias, or Eliasovitz before they emigrated to the United States. A study by Chuan-Chao Wang et al. Both J2b1 and J2b2-L283 are also found at high frequency in Greece and in regions that used to be part of the ancient Greek world (Ionia, Magna Graecia). Because mtDNA breaks down more slowly than nuclear DNA, it is often possible to obtain mtDNA results where other testing fails. According to commercial tests conducted by other members of the Jewish Oppenheimer family, the American theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967) belonged to haplogroup Q1b. The most famous member of the clan was probably the astronaut Neil Armstrong, who was the first person to walk on the Moon, and who took with him a piece of the Clan Armstrong tartan. The particularly strong frequency of J2a and other Near Eastern haplogroups (J1, E1b1b, T) in the south of the Iberian peninsula, suggest that the Phoenicians and the Carthaginians played a more decisive role than other peoples. The first President of the United States, George Washington (1732-1799), may well have belonged to R1b-L21. Hundreds of participants tested at the Hamilton DNA Project, including a close relative of the current Duke of Abercorn. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor and won him the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role in the movie Chaplin (1992), and won a Golden Globe Award for his role in the TV series Ally McBeal. lineages within a specific haplogroup. The J2-M172 haplogroup is estimated to have appeared in the region of . This page collects famous members of Y-DNA haplogroup J2 paternal lineage. Not all Macdonalds, MacAlisters and MacDougalls are descended from Somerled though. Mathieson et al. Some are over 10,000 years old (CTS6002, F3133, M68, M319, PF5174, Z6065) could have migrated from West to South Asia during the Neolithic, Chalcolithic or Early Bronze Age. Tony Kushner (b. Haplogroup I2 M438. Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), the 16th president of the United States, appears to have belonged to R1b-U152 > L2 > Z142 > Z150 > S20376 > S20376. The other major samurai clans that do not descend from that lineage typically descend from the Fujiwara clan, who belong to haplogroup O1b. John Curtin (1885-1945), the 14th Prime Minister of Australia from 1941 to 1945, was identified as a member of haplogroup J2a1-F3133 by the Curtin Clan Y-DNA Project. George H.W. They claim descent from the 4th-century Irish king Niall of the Nine Hostages. Results from the Lyon(s) Surname DNA Project indicate that the aristocratic branch of Clan Lyon belongs to I1-L22 > Z2338 > P109 > S10891, a clade associated with the Viking migrations and the Normans. [citation needed]. Outside the Caucasus, the highest frequencies of J2 are observed in Cyprus (37%), Crete (34%), northern Iraq (28%), Lebanon (26%), Turkey (24%, with peaks of 30% in the Marmara region and in central Anatolia), Greece (23%), Central Italy (23%), Sicily (23%), South Italy (21.5%), and Albania (19.5%), as well as among Jewish people (19 to 25%). Clan Drummond is a Highland Scottish clan whose clan chief were granted the title of Lord Drummond of Cargill (1488), then of Earl of Perth (1605 to this day). All of them belong to the typically north-western European R1a-L664 (DYS388=10). The PF5456 subclade is barely 2500 years old, and would have emerged and propagated after the founding of Rome. The clan chief obtained the title of Lord Graham (1445), then Earl of Montrose (1503), Marquess of Montrose (1644), and eventually Duke of Montrose from 1707 to this day. Therefore, they indicate the genetic lines of people and the regions they come from that are the oldest we've been able to identify. Their mtDNA haplogroup was assessed as M1a1. One branch of the clan acquired the titles of Laird of Cadzow (c. 1315), Lord Hamilton (1445), Earl of Arran (1503), Marquess of Hamilton (1599), and eventually Duke of Hamilton (1643) until the 12th duke died without male heir in 1895 and the title passed to Clan Douglas. [11][12], Empress Alexandra of Russia and her children, Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei were identified as belonging to mtDNA haplogroup H (16111T, 16357C, 263G, 315.1C). The haplogroup of the celebrated Russian writer Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, usually known as Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910), was inferred by testing one of his descendants, Pyotr Tolstoy. Haplogroups of the Founding Fathers of the United States, Haplogroups of prominent leaders of the American Civil War, Johnson/Johnston/Johnstone DNA Surname Project, Prince Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Prigord, John Graham of Claverhouse, 1st Viscount Dundee, Randolph/Randall/Randle/Randol Surname Group. The main branch descends from Elizabeth Gordon, daughter of Sir Adam Gordon, who married Alexander Seton in 1408. Braxton Bragg (1817-1876) was an American army officer during the Second Seminole War and MexicanAmerican War and later a Confederate army officer who served as a general in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War. [18], Richard III's mitochondrial haplotype was inferred from living descendants and then the identity of his remains confirmed through a multidisciplinary process including genetic analysis of both his mitochondrial and Y-DNA. The Serbian-American scientist and inventor Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) is most famous for his work on the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system, the induction motor, the Tesla coil, etc. Haplogroup J2 is widely believed to be associated with the spread of agriculture from the northern Fertile Crescent, the Levant, and Anatolia [2], [3].This connection is supported by its age (8,500 +/- 3,500 thousand years ago) , which is very close to the beginning of the Neolithic, its distribution, which is centered in West Asia and Southeastern Europe, as well as its association with the . The Fujiwara clan was a powerful family of regents who dominated Japanese politics during the Heian period (7941185). The House of Grimaldi also produced three doges of Genoa, a prince of Salerno, and several archbishops and cardinals. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum (b. (2012) tested the remains of Ramesses III, the second pharaoh of Egypt's 20th dynasty. [60], Analysis of two beard hairs revealed that Napoleon Bonaparte belonged to Y haplogroup E1b1b1c1* (E-M34*).[61]. Known to his Army colleagues as "Hancock the Superb", he was noted in particular for his personal leadership at the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863. There is a high diversity of J2a in Italy, but the most common branch found all over the peninsula and therefore most likely linked with a Roman diffusion is L70, and particularly its subclade Z435. Results from the Wilson DNA Project helped determine that the American statesmen, politician, legal scholar, and Founding Father James Wilson (1742-1798) most probably belonged to haplogroup I1. Sir Henry Clinton was the British Commander-in-Chief in North America during the American War of Independence. In his native town of Akhmin, Yuya was a prophet of Min, the chief "god" of the area, and served as this deity's "Superintendent of Cattle".[29]. His descendants later became Marquesses of Huntly (1599-present), as well as Dukes of Gordon from 1684 to 1836. At the start of the Civil War, he joined the Union Army as an officer. The acclaimed theoretical physicist Albert Einstein is presumed to have belonged to Y-haplogroup E-Z830 based on the results from a patrilineal descendant of Naphtali Hirsch Einstein Albert . Distribution of mtDNA haplogroup J in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East fOrigins & History The mutation defining haplogroup J is thought to have taken place some 45,000 years ago, probably in West Asia. He is responsible for the growth of Dubai into a global city, as well as the launch of a number of major enterprises including Emirates Airline, DP World, and the Jumeirah Group. Matt Lauer (b. The study revealed that he belonged to haplogroup E1b1b1. Today J2b1 is most common in the western Balkans (Serbia, Bosnia, Croatia) and Cyprus. Both of these studies had identified the remains as belonging to haplogroup G2a. Bernadotte was a native of Pau in Gascony, where this haplogroup is indeed common today. 1939) desends from an illegitimate branch of King Robert III of Scotland, the Stewarts of Blackhall & Ardgowan. Analysis of a handkerchief with blood traces said to have been obtained at the execution of Louis XVI of France, suggested that he may have belonged to Y-DNA haplogroup G-M201. The Lowland Scottish Clan Lindsay descends from Sir Walter de Lindissie, who accompanied David of Scotland, Earl of Huntingdon, to claim his throne. Larry Bird (b. In 2003, the National Book Foundation awarded him the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. The clan chief has held the title of Earl of Home since 1605. 902 public Y-DNA members . Clan Chattan is a confederaton of Highland Scottish clans. It was very important for the Yuan dynasty to maintain marriage-alliance with the Onguds, which had been very important assistant since Genghis Khan. American actor Tom Hanks, a descendant of William Hanks of Richmond, Virginia, belongs to haplogroup R1a1. Results from the Clan Cameron DNA Project indicate that the vast majority of participants of Highland Clan Cameron belong to R1b-L21 > DF13 > Y16233 > A2070 > Y16765 > A7298 > A6138. The Mackenzie have possessed the titles of Earl of Seaforth from 1623 to 1781, and of Earl of Cromartie (1703-1746 and 1861 to present). The 9th Earl took his wife's surname (Bowes), and his descendants carried the hyphenated Lyon-Bowes or Bowes-Lyon patronym. Bull-masked terracotta figurines and bull-horned stone altars have been found in Cyprus (dating back as far as the Neolithic, the first presumed expansion of J2 from West Asia). ; Mar'i Pasha al-Mallah (1856-1930) : was a Syrian political leader and statesman who notably served Governor General of the State of Aleppo (1924-1926). The same individual is listed in the Normandy Y-DNA Project as a member of R1b-L21 > DF63 > BY592. This was determined by testing his grandson, Alexander Burdonsky (his son Vasily's son). A study conducted at Trinity College, Dublin,[62] found that a striking percentage of men in Ireland (and quite a few in Scotland) share the same Y chromosome. Lazaridis et al. The clade's most recent common ancestor lived approximately 550 years ago, and might correspond to Alexander Montgomerie (died 1470), 1st Lord Montgomerie. Furthermore, this N1c1 haplotype possess the distinctive value DYS390=23, found in Scandinavia but not in Uralic populations, confirming that this was indeed the original haplotype of the Varangian prince Rurik (c. 830-c. 879) who established the Kievan Rus'. 1955), the co-founder of the Microsoft Corporation and the richest man in the world according to Forbes for most of the time since 2000, appears to belong to haplogroup I2-Y3684 (aka Y3713) according to the testing of a close relative. List of haplogroups of famous Japanese people "Famous peoples Y DNA and mt DNA haplotypes". It is believed that Clan Douglas also descends from Freskin and the biggest cluster in the Douglas DNA Project indeed matches the Sutherland and Murray haplotype. The Confederate States Army general J. E. B. Stuart (1833-1864) descends from the Baronet of Castle Stuart and therefore belonged to the same lineage. 1941) belongs to Y-haplogroup J2a according to the PBS television series Finding Your Roots. If you are new to genetic genealogy, please check our Introduction to phylogenetics to understand how to read a phylogenetic tree. Notwithstanding, the branch descended from Vladimir II Monomakh's presumed paternal cousin Oleg I of Chernigov (Olgoviches) belonged to R1a1a. Nevgen assign his haplotype to R1b-U106 > Z381 > Z156 > BY12482 with 100% certainty. Both of them carried the Y-chromosome haplogroup is E1b1b1a1b1a6a1c (E-V13 > CTS12223 > BY3880 > E5017 > CTS9320 > Z17264 > PH1173). They were elevated to the rank of count in 1595, then prince of the Holy Roman Empire in 1647. Union general William Tecumseh Sherman (1820-1891), who played a key role during the American Civil War, shared a common ancestor with Roger Sherman in the person of Henry Sherman (1511-1590) from Dedham, Essex. After the war he became the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, which has made him a controversial figure in American history. He hqs been speculqted thqt the prisoner was an imposter and not Rudolf Hess. He is known for his roll in creating the TV show Seinfeld. George B. McClellan (1826-1885) was an American soldier, civil engineer, railroad executive, and politician who served as the 24th Governor of New Jersey. { Source: Finding Your Roots} Robert John Downey Jr. Downey is a US TV and movie actor. Djokovic is considered one of the greatest tennis players of all time. His haplogroup was first thought to be I2a-L147.2+ based on the results of another (unrelated) Tesla from the same village as his father. He is primarily known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, based on Lafayette County, Mississippi, where he spent most of his life. They managed to identify his maternal haplogroup as J2. John Stamos (b. One of his cousins was George Clinton (1739-1812), one of the Founding Fathers of the United States, who served as 1st Governor of New York and 4th Vice President of the United States. The Israeli politician Benjamin Netanyahu, who has served four times as Prime Minister of Israel, belongs to haplogroup R1a-Z93 (Jewish Y2630 subclade) according to his brother's Ido's DNA test at FTDNA. It survives today in the traditional bullfighting of Andalusia in Spain and Provence in France, two regions with a high percentage of J2 lineages. Clan MacLean is one of the oldest clans in the Highlands, with origins going back at least to 852. Birger Magnusson was the ancestor of a line of kings of both Sweden and Norway, starting with his son, Valdemar, King of Sweden. More recently, however, it has been determined that the emergence of R-M222 predates Niall and may be more than 2,000 years old. However both the Etruscans and Greeks would have carried many other Y-DNA lineages, including G2a, J1, R1b-Z2103, T1a, and probably also E-M34. The Drummond DNA Project determined that the Drummond Peerage belonged to R1b-L21 > DF13 > L513 > S5668 > A7 > Z17623 > S5982 > FGC30224 > ZS4584 > BY4017. Several clan members with genealogies going back to the 13th or 14th century tested at the Home/Hume DNA Project and belong to R1a-Z284 > S4458 > S5301 > S5153 > L448 > CTS4179 > YP276 > YP5728 > BY66158, a lineage that is indeed of Scandinavian origin. Based on results from the Witherspoon DNA Project was a member of R1b-U106 > S263 > L48 > L47 > Z159 > Z4714 > BY35813 > BY56495. The Indo-Aryans pursued their southward expansion, invading northern Pakistan and northwest India from 1800 BCE to 1500 BCE, and eventually bringing about the demise of the Indus Valley Civilisation around 1300 BCE. Malmstrma et al. The most famous member Pavel Tsitsianov (1754-1806), an Imperial Russian military commander and infantry general who also served as head of the Russian troops in Georgia and Viceroy of the Caucasus. The team that analysed the Eighteenth Dynasty mummies disputed a claim later made by the personal genomics company iGENEA regarding Tutankhamun's Y-DNA profile. Our "Y" Chromosome is inherited from father to son. The Irish King Brian Boru, founder of the O'Brien Dynasty is associated with the Dalcassian haplogroup R1B-L226. At least three descendants from the Fujiwara clan tested their Y-DNA at Family Tree DNA and all belonged to haplogroup O1b2a1 (formerly known as O2b1a), also known as O-47Z (aka CTS10674 or CTS11986). Henry is best known for his declaration to the Second Virginia Convention (1775): "Give me liberty, or give me death!" General Samuel McClellan, making him a member of haplogroup R1b-L21 > DF13 > Z39589 > DF49 > DF23 > Z2961 > M222. It was not discussed in a 2010 academic study that included DNA profiling of some of the male mummies of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt, and was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Predicted Y-DNA haplogroup G2a, based on ancient Y-STR profiles. This branch of J1 is found mostly in the Levant and the western Mediterranean, where it may have been brought by the Phoenicians. The first expansion probably correlated with the diffusion of domesticated of cattle and goats (starting c. 8000-9000 BCE), rather than with the development of cereal agriculture in the Levant. Some contemporary notable figures have made their test results public in the course of news programs or documentaries about this topic; they may be included in this list too. Taft also served as 6th Solicitor General of the United States (1890-1892), Governor-General of the Philippines (1901-1903), 42th United States Secretary of War (1904-1908), and 1st Provisional Governor of Cuba (1906). Clan Gordon is a Scottish clan originating in the 12th century in the Scottish Borders region. Canadian statesman Pierre Trudeau, the third longest-serving Prime Minister in Canadian history, and his son Justin Trudeau, who served as the second-youngest Canadian Prime Minister, probably belong to haplogroup R1b-DF27 > Z196 > SRY2627 > Z208 according to FTDNA's French Heritage Project and their genealogy on Geni.com. Clan Murray descends from William's cousin. The clan chiefs later held the title of Lord Glamis (from 1445), Earls of Kinghorne (1606), and eventually Earls of Strathmore and Kinghorne from 1677 to this day. This page collects famous members of Y-DNA haplogroup J2 (paternal lineage). The highest concentrations of J2a in Europe are found in Crete (32% of the population) and Calabria (26%). The American actor and filmmaker Ben Affleck (b. Subclades. Anthropology. 8. They became the ancestors of a number of samurai clans, such as the Akizuki, Chsokabe, Kawakatsu and Tamura. 1956) is an American playwright and screenwriter. 2017). They became the ancestors of a number of kuge (court aristocrat) families like the Ichij, Nij, Konoe, Kuj, Saionji and Takatsukasa, as well as of samurai clans, such as the Adachi, Ashikaga (Fujiwara), Azai, Date, Gam, Honda, Ii, It, Katakura, Kikkawa, Nabeshima, Niwa, Ryzji, Shni, Tsugaru, Uesugi and Utsunomiya, among many others. The 12th president of the United States, Zachary Taylor (1784-1850) belonged to haplogroup R1b-L21 > DF13 > Z39589 > L1335 > L1065 > S764 > BY3148 > FGC18451 based on the results from the Taylor DNA Project (Group 06), and is ultimately descended from Sir John Taylor (1327-1377), a Knight to King Edward III. Milorad Dodik (b. Y-DNA testing may be carried out on male relatives. Members of the House of Wettin include the Kings Edward VII, George V, Edward VIII and George VI of the United Kingdom, all the Kings of the Belgians, the Kings of Portugal from 1853 to 1910, the Kings of Bulgaria from 1887 to 1946, several Kings of Poland and Grand Dukes of Lithuania, the Margraves of Meissen from 1075 to 1423, the Electors of Saxony from 1423 to 1806, the Kings of Saxony from 1806 to 1918, and the rulers of the numerous smaller Saxon duchies. Or it could have been one of the lineages of Chalcolithic Southeast and Central Europe. Stephen King (b. [66] Somerled belongs to haplogroup R1a1. Other famous members of haplogroup J2a. Human Y chromosome haplogroup J1-M267 is a common male lineage in West Asia. His mtDNA haplogroup is K1a9. About 16 princesses of Yuan dynasty were married to khans of the Ongud. A paternal cousin of his tested his Y-DNA and belongs to J2b2a-Z631. Niall belongs to Haplogroup R1b1c7 (M222). Highland Scottish Clan Murray and Clan Sutherland both descend from a Flemish nobleman by the name of Freskin, who settled in Scotland during the reign of King David I and was granted lands in West Lothian and the ancient Pictish kingdom of Moray (which would become known as Sutherland).