Haplogroup I-M253
The Haplogroup I1 ( L64, L75, L80, L81, L118, L121/S62, L123, L124/S64, L125/S65, L157, L186, L187, M253, M307.2/P203.2, M450/S109, P30, P40, S63, S66, S107, S108, S110, S111) in human genetics is a haplogroup of the Y chromosome and comes with their mutations ( SNPs), the most common in Scandinavia before. I1 is a subset of Haplogroup I which exists exclusively in Europe.
Prior to the reclassification in 2008, it bore the name I 1a.
The group I1 mainly occurs most frequently in western Finland (up to 40%), in southern Norway (35 %) and followed by Sweden (especially on the island of Gotland ) and in Denmark and Northern Germany.
In his book Blood of the Isles professor and author Bryan Sykes gave the progenitor of haplogroup I1 the name of Wodan, as he already The Seven Daughters of Eve did it in his first book with the European mitochondrial haplogroups Urmüttern.
Origins
For several years there was a prevailing view that the predecessors of the I1 group sought refuge during the last glacial period in the Balkans. The age of the haplogroup is estimated at 15,000 to 20,000 years.
'The Genographic Project ' of the National Geographic Society said that the founder of the I1 group lived during the last Ice Age on the Iberian Peninsula. Some researchers have even the South of France and the Italian peninsula indicated as a possible fallback position. FamilyTree DNA, however, indicates that the haplogroup is much younger ( 4000-5000 years).
Kenneth Nordtvedt of Montana State University also believes that the haplogroup I1 an earlier sub- group, and probably existed only after the last ice age. According to Nordtvedt the last common ancestor ( MRCA ) of I1 probably lived 4,000 to 6,000 years ago in northern Europe, perhaps Denmark. The descendants are mainly to look at the Germanic people of Northern Europe and the adjacent Uralic and Celtic populations, although these are overshadowed in the traditional Germanic countries by numerous common haplogroup R. Peter A. Underhill of the Human Population Genetics Labatory Stanford University and other scientists support this hypothesis.
The marker DYS462 indicates a geographical difference. According Nordvedts study 12 allele repeats suggest rather to Anglo-Saxon origin, whereas 13 alleles suggest rather Nordic origin.
In the STR test the marker DYS455 Are 8 allele repeats, haplogroup I1 can be accurately predicted (probability 99.3 to 99.8 percent according to Whit Athey and Vince Vinzachero ). The SNP need for it is not yet tested. This is practically omnipresent in haplogroup I1.
Famous representatives of haplogroup I1
Alexander Hamilton, politician and one of the founding fathers of the United States. Determined from the Y-DNA of the offspring of Hamilton.
Birger Jarl ( Birger Magnusson of Bjälb ), Jarl of Sweden and founder of Stockholm. His grave lay was opened in 2002, exhumed his bones and determined its DNA by pyrosequencing.
Håkon Wium Lie (CTO ) at Opera Software and known for the proposal for the introduction of Cascading Style Sheets.