New Subclade Announcement: E-Y182211

We are enthused to announce the recognition of another subclade by YFull! The subclade is called E-Y182211, and it is downstream E-Y18621.

Many thanks to the two Big Y testers whose kits are now defining the new subclade at YFull.

It is a five SNP subclade defined by the mutations Y182211, Y182212, Y182213, Y182214, and Y182215. These are also called FT157343, FT157624, FT157038, FT157874, and FT157794 respectfully.

With these two kits, YFull's age estimate for the TMRCA of this subclade is approximately 275 years ago. This is quite recent, and hopefully we will find candidates to split some of these SNPs into a new subclade. 

This subclade is primarily associated with group D62 in the Y-DNA results page here. If your kit is in this group, and you would like to confirm that you are positive for the SNPs defining this subclade, please send an admin an email. 

Looking at the geographic origins of the two Big Y testers, we have one from Czechia and one from Slovakia. It is likely that the common ancestor of these two individuals lived in one of these modern countries. 

Our next steps for research of this subclade are:
1) To contact specific members who are likely in the subclade and test them for the 5 SNPs
2) Attempt to split the subclade into multiple branches
3) To survey other members who are found to be in this subclade for more geographic and genealogical information

You can see the new subclade here. If you have any questions about this subclade, please post a comment or send us an email. Thanks!

- Leo