A New Subclade Announcement unlike all the others: E-FT41690

We are extremely happy to announce the recognition of another subclade by YFull! The subclade is called E-FT41690, and it has split multiple subclades downstream E-Y18621. 

E-FT41690 is a subclade unlike all the others because it is defined by a SNP that was not found by Family Tree DNA's old Big Y and Big Y-500 tests, but rather in its new Big Y-700 test. That means that all Big Y tests before Big Y-700 did not even look at the location where the SNP FT41690 exists. What E-FT41690 has done has split around half of the subclades that were under E-Y18621. See here what E-Y18621 looked like before the E-FT41690 split.

Now, see how E-FT41690 changes E-Y18621. Subclades E-Y135415, E-A18889, E-A16692, and E-A12255 have now been found to be downstream E-FT41690, and we have also identified someone who is E-FT41690*.

The age estimate for E-FT41690 is the same as its parent E-Y18621: 1050 years before present, or 950 CE. This is a well-tested date within E-Y14891/AB-005 and between other similarly spread Jewish lineages. 

This subclade is associated with all groups that begin with DA, as well as the main D02 in the Y-DNA results page here. If your kit is in any of these subclades, please let an admin know if we feel that a SNP test for FT41690 or another SNP would be helpful to the project. 

The geographic spread of E-FT41690, just like its phylogenetic parent of E-Y18621, is far-reaching. As E-FT41690 was formed in the early Ashkenazi community, it is found among Ashkenazi Jews with roots all over Europe. 

Our next steps for research of this subclade are:
1) To test if any new subclades under E-Y18621 are also under E-FT41690
2) To attempt to find a clade-mate for YF68634 at E-FT41690*
3) To use what we've learned about Y700 SNP splitting here in other subclades of the project

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