Origin of I1-L22 Southern Scandinavia? Lower Saxony?
Predicting the origins of a haplogroup can be a tricky business. For I1-L22 several similar regions are estimated in common sources. Most frequently, southern Scandinavia is cited as the predicted location of origin (Denmark), whilst other sources state the slightly more northern Fennoscandic region (Norway, Sweden, Finland). The methods of estimating the origins of a haplogroup usually combine frequency statistics of the haplogroup' far north? s prevalence with known migration routes (usually backed up by the archaeological record) and the wider historical record. In the case of I1-L22, there seems to be consensus that the origin was north European, the only question is how Using paternal ancestry statistics gained through members of the I1-L22 Facebook group, we have conducted a similar origin prediction activity. We combined the known origins of our group members and weighted them for frequency. When triangulated on a map of Europe we can see that the origin locus seems to be...