Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) of Y-DNA

[McElmurry]

Next Generation Sequencing is the most in-depth test currently available for Y-DNA. Like many people I initially took an inexpensive test with 23andMe and was placed in a very large group called R-L21. After a few years I took a more in depth test called the L21 Panel with the Lab YSEQ. This test put me in the group R-L21>DF13*. The * means I was negative for further know mutations in that group. Realizing that very few of German ancestry are in the L21 group and very few Germans get DNA testing I decided to blaze my own trail and take Y-Elite 2.0 from Full Genome Corporation (FGC).

What I got out of the test was my terminal SNP, that is the last mutation I share with another tester, and a list of private mutations (SNPs), those I don't yet share with anybody. I shared my results with The Big Tree and they can be seen at the link below. I am happy to answer any questions about NGS or Y-DNA testing in general.

http://www.ytree.net/DisplayTree.php?blockID=1254

I am on the far left along with a Welshman with whom I share nine private SNPs, and a dark stranger. Scroll down to see the names and countries of origin. If you scroll across the bottom you will find a few other Germans scattered amongst the "Celts". Portions of L21 are believed to be associated with the Bell Beaker Culture and proto-Celtic languages. The origin of these Y-DNA groups is hotly debated but one popular theory is they originated along the Rhine and perhaps the upper Danube and were scattered during the Great Migrations.