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Flanders-Flemish DNA

  • 601 members

About us

At this moment (October 2024) the project has 590 members. Nearly 300 of those have already researched their mitochondrial DNA (maternal line), and 426 have researched their Y-DNA (paternal line) at least up to 12 Y-STR markers. For 210 of our project members, BigY test results are available.

Y-haplogroup R1b-M269 is most common among the project members, representing 253 of the 426 samples that had at least 12 Y-STR markers tested (= 59.4%). Of those, 117 have already been shown to belong to the P312 subclade, and 43 to the U106 subclade. Another 78 samples belong to haplogroup I-M170 (= 18.3%), while smaller numbers belong to haplogroups G-M201, J-M172, and E-M96>M35.

These numbers are in line with the study by Larmuseau et al. (2014), which reported that about 61% of the overall male population in Flanders belongs to haplogroup R-M269, and about 13% to I-M170.