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Were the ancient Etruscans an important link to rhesus negatives today?

Were the ancient Etruscans an important link to rhesus negatives today?

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Haplogroup JT (mtDNA) was extremely common among the ancient Etruscans.
I am getting a few results from rhesus negatives having taken the 23andme DNA test.
And JT appears. Again and again in such a high percentage that the origin of the haplogroup becomes one of my focal points.
It leads me to the ancient Etruscans and the claim by John Hawks that Tuscany has the highest percentage of Neanderthal DNA in Europe.

“The Tuscans have the highest level of Neandertal similarity of any of the 1000 Genomes Project samples. They have around a half-percent more Neandertal similarity than Brits or Finns in these samples. The CEU sample is slightly elevated compared to Brits and Finns as well.”
Source: Which population in the 1000 Genomes Project samples has the most Neandertal similarity?

Note:
Whether or not there was a Neanderthal/rhesus negative connection, is NOT proven at this point.
(For more on that, read: https://www.rhesusnegative.net/staynegative/neanderthalhands)
So what else is interesting about Haplogroup JT (mtDNA)?
The descendants:
MtDNA J:
Haplogroup J is a human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroup. The clade derives from the haplogroup JT, which also gave rise to Haplogroup T. In his popular book The Seven Daughters of Eve, Bryan Sykes named the originator of this mtDNA haplogroup Jasmine. Within the field of medical genetics, certain polymorphisms specific to haplogroup J have been associated with Leber’s hereditary optic neuropathy.

MtDNA T:
Haplogroup T is a human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroup. It is believed to have originated around 25,000 years ago in the Near East.

What is interesting about those mtDNA haplogroups is the high frequencies in parts of the world where rhesus negative blood is quite frequent.
Scotland, Ireland, Basque Country (ancient burial grounds).
And then there are countries such as Ethiopia where the rhesus negative blood factor might only be in existance amongst 8 percent of the population, yet the difference between that number and the much lower African frequencies stands out enough to pay much attention to such nations and population.
As Dieneke’s states:
“Like us, Vernesi et al. (2004) detected a significant difference between the present-day population of Tuscany and the prehistoric one inhabiting the same area (Etruscan), with a gap of 2,500 years between them, finding only two haplotypes in common between both populations. It may be that this phenomenon is more widespread and has occurred in other regions of Western Europe. Data on more prehistoric populations are required in order to confirm this phenomenon. It should also be taken into account that these differences have only been detected in the mtDNA, as currently, the nuclear genome of prehistoric European individuals has not been studied at the population level.”

The question is not so much what percentage of the Tuscany population is currently rhesus negative, but what the blood type frequencies of the ancient Etruscans were.

But if your mtDNA is JT, regardless where you might consider yourself to be from, you could hold one of the many keys to answering this question.

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4 Comments

  1. Tamara W. December 27, 2021 Reply

    Rh A neg. I’m 9.3 % Tuscany Italian. Haplogroup K.
    Haplogroup K originated in West Asian between 20,000 and 38,000 years ago. Present in farmers from the Early Neolithic. Near East and among Early European farmers. Haplogroup K’s spread during the Bronze Age led to migration patterns venturing into Germany countries and Central Asia. Today ,mtdDNA K is particular common in Northwest Europe.

  2. Jessy September 23, 2022 Reply

    The ancient Etruscans were descendants of both Tubal and chittim, through the Sabine women that were originally daughters of Tubal, whom were kidnapped and forced into marriage with the sons of chittim, also known as the Romim, from which we get the name romans from. According to the book of Jasher when the people were dispersed into the 4 corners of the earth at the destruction of the tower of Babel, all the families became each according to it’s LANGUAGE, IT’S LAND or it’s CITY. Where ever they went traces of either their language or name of them and their children can be found. And the children of TUBAL are those that dwell in the land of TUSKANAH, (TUSCANY) or Toscanna by the river PESA, And the children of chittim which are originally from CYPRUS. The Romans are in fact ancestors of the greeks. Son of Javan. And in the 91st year of the life of Abraham, the children of Chittim made war with the children of TUBAL, for when the Lord had scattered the sons of men upon the face of the earth, the children of CHITTIM went an embodied themselves in the plain of Canopia, and they built themselves cities there and dwelt by the river TIBER. And the children of TUBAL dwelt in TUSCANAH and their boundaries reached the RIVER TIBER , and the children of TUBAL built a city in TUSCANAN (toscanan) and they called the name SABINAH (Sabine) after the name of Sabinah SON OF TUBAL, their father, “which could mean their forefather, father of their nation”

  3. jessy September 23, 2022 Reply

    For all the DAUGHTERS OF TUBAL were in those days fair, for no woman were then found in the WHOLE EARTH so FAIR (BEAUTIFUL) as the daughters of TUBAL. And all who delighted in the beauty of woman went to the DAUGHTERS OF TUBAL and TOOK WIVES FOR THEMSELVES and the sons of men, KINGS AND PRINCES ALL OVER THE WORLD, who greatly delighted in the beauty of women, TOOK WIVES in those days from the daughters of TUBAL, And at the end of 3 years after the children of Tubal SWORN an oath not to give their daughters as wives to the children of CHITTIM ( the romans) the chidren of Chittim went to take some of the daughters of Tubal for wives but they found none, for the children of Tubal kept their oaths not to intermarry with the romans, and they would not beak their oaths, So on harvest day when the sons of Tubal whent to the fields, the young men of Chittim asembled and went to the city Sabinah, and each took a young woman from the daughters of Tubal for a wife, and the chidren of Tubal heard of it and went to make war with the Romans, but could not prevail over them, for the mountain was exceedingly high from them, and whent they saw they could not prevail over them, they returned to their land with sorrow hearts. And at the end of the year the chidren of Tubal went and hired 100000 men form their surrounding cities and made war on the Romans, And when the children of Tubal prevailed over the children of Chittim, the romans lifted up their infants they had with the daughters of Tubal above the walls which had been built, to be before they eyes of the children of Tubal and said to them, “Have you come to make war with your own sons and daughters, and have we not been considered your flesh and bones from that time till now”? and when the children of Tubal heard this, they ceased to make war with them, and went away and return to their cities. And the children of Chittim (the romans) at that time assembled and built 2 cities by the sea and called them Purto (Porto) and Ariza

  4. Miki October 1, 2022 Reply

    If they are American(most likely are) it’s because of J haplogroup is very common in Ireland and Scottland.

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