Genetics buffs please!
I'm trying to understand this genetics thing. I posted in a community a while back asking if ancestry DNA tests like the The Genographic Project that National Geographic is doing would give information about my father's grandmother (my brother would do the test since he is a male descendant). The general consensus was that since the line I want to know about was passed on through mitochrondrial DNA (matrilineal) it wouldn't have been found in my father's DNA and so neither in my brother's.
But reading about Kwäday Dän Ts'ìnchi now ( aka "The Canadian Iceman") I found this:
In 2000, DNA testing of local inhabitants of the Champagne and Aishihik First Nations tribes' mitochondria revealed 17 living people who are matrilineally related to Kwäday Dän Ts’ìnchi. (Source; Original source cited: Pringle, Heather. "The Messenger", Canadian Geographic Magazine, Dec 2008, p. 73 )
Those remains were male, so I am confused again. Can anyone explain to me how they were able to confirm a matrilineal lineage (matrilineage? lol) there? Does that mean we might find the specific haplogroup in our DNA from a female ancestor past through our male parent after all? Or am I understanding something here wrong again?
Of course I'd like to just get the test done already and see what we find out but it's not a financial priority unfortunately :p
But reading about Kwäday Dän Ts'ìnchi now ( aka "The Canadian Iceman") I found this:
In 2000, DNA testing of local inhabitants of the Champagne and Aishihik First Nations tribes' mitochondria revealed 17 living people who are matrilineally related to Kwäday Dän Ts’ìnchi. (Source; Original source cited: Pringle, Heather. "The Messenger", Canadian Geographic Magazine, Dec 2008, p. 73 )
Those remains were male, so I am confused again. Can anyone explain to me how they were able to confirm a matrilineal lineage (matrilineage? lol) there? Does that mean we might find the specific haplogroup in our DNA from a female ancestor past through our male parent after all? Or am I understanding something here wrong again?
Of course I'd like to just get the test done already and see what we find out but it's not a financial priority unfortunately :p