Details about clade common among Ossetians
and Kabardinians - G2a1

Explanation of this clade
Please note that all references to the old terminology for this group have been changed here to
say G2a1. Some other locations on the Internet may still use the old term, G2a.

Testing of the one detailed sample available, which also seems typical of the short G samples from Ossetia,
showed he was G2a1. This haplotype is the most common in the Caucasus Mtns. which has the highest percentage
of G persons in the world.

These Ossetians may be related to the ones included at this site with clade # 15, but the unavailability
of full marker samples makes it impossible to determine if they are most closely related to the Ossetians
below or to the Spanish-Italian men of clade # 15 who most closely match these other Ossetians at 12
markers.

Adding to the uncertainty about the relatedness of the men in this clade to the other group (#15), Stalin
from this clade is not very close genetically to Filippelli from clade # 15.   In contrast, he is twice as close
genetically to Benedict, who has not been assigned to a clade, but belongs to a G2a1 group. Filippelli
was found not to be G2a1, but he might belong to that group of men who have lost this unstable marker.
And, of course, there is no detailed sample available from the Caucasus that has typical marker values found in
clade # 15.

Persons probably belonging to this clade    May 2007 update
............confirmed members with 37 markers listed on the graph above are in bold
.....................those with fewer than 37 markers who only seem to belong to the clade are in plain type

who list origins in Russia

Stalin 6PS3J in Y-Search. Apparently not in G project. Listed as origins in Russia.
        This is the sample discussed in a 2006 Russian edition of Newsweek, which claimed Joseph
        Stalin's grandson was found to be G2. However, the lab only found him positive for the
        general G (M201+) marker.  In the postings below, reference
        is made to author Nikita Maximov, and that is the contact person in Y-Search.
        If this identification is correct, the country of origin would  actually be Georgia -- though that portion of
        Georgia has been under the control of South Ossetian separatists.
        These are postings at Rootsweb apparently discussing this sample:
        http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/genealogy-dna/2006-12/1167072153
        http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/genealogy-dna/2006-12/1167074457
        http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/genealogy-dna/2006-12/1167072799
        http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/genealogy-dna/2006-12/1167217211
        http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/genealogy-dna/2006-12/1167073842
       In summer 2007, this sample was upgraded to 67 markers and found to be G2a1. The G2a1a test not
       available.

In YHRD in the Digora, N. Ossetia, samples, 12 of 31 total samples fall within the typical values, and
       there are a half dozen others somewhat similar. Similarly, in YHRD's Ardon, N. Ossetia, samples, one
       has the typical values out of 28, but several others are close. Among the Kabardinians (n.w. of N. Ossetia) in
      YHRD, there are 6 out of 58 total samples that belong to this clade, accounting for about half of the G among these
       peoples.
One of the Nasidze studies of the Caucasus Mtns. found 32 men with this same pattern in Alagir, North
       Ossetia. These likely constitute the bulk of the haplogroup G persons he found there. He did not type
       them for G subgroups.

A Russian sample in Sorenson database whose ancestors are listed as anonymous. It is not exactly the same
      as the Stalin sample but very similar. Not tested for G status.

who list origins in Armenia

In YHRD, there is one out of 100 Armenian samples that is somewhat similar to one in Ossetia.

who list origins in Hungary

In YHRD, there is one sample taken in Budapest within the typical values for the clade here.