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Seraphina's Maternal mtDNA

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Seraphina's maternal mtDNA haplogroup K1a4j1, especially K1a, belongs to Middle Eastern linage.

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K Haplogroup

Haplogroup K is found through Europe and contains multiple closely related lineages indicating a recent population expansion. The origin of haplogroup K dates to approximately 16,000 years ago. It has been suggested that individuals with this haplogroup participated in the pre-Neolithic expansion following the Last Glacial Maximum.

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K1a 

K1a is a widespread haplogroup that traces back to a woman who lived nearly 20,000 years ago, right around the time of the last great peak of the Ice Age. As the Ice Age gradually loosened its grasp on the global climate in the next several millennia, K1a expanded in the Middle East. Women carrying the haplogroup later spread into Europe as well, with early waves of migration that carried farmers and their new agricultural lifestyle to the west during the Neolithic Revolution. Today, members of K1a can be found throughout the Middle East and Europe.​​

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K1a4j1

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Ancient Samples

K1a4j1

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VB18 sample - Italy
VB39 sample - Italy
JX271290 - Kurd
JX271292 - Kurd
JX273271 - Azerbaijan

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Modern

K1a4j1

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Found in Turkey, Italy, Argentina

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Seraphina's direct maternal line which is defined by mtDNA K1a4j1 goes back to the first known and identified female ancestor who was born in Bursa, Turkey - Sophia Konstantinovna Clavone (1760-1822).

 

According to the available information, Sophia was of Greek ethnic descent which left its ethnic mark in Seraphina's mother's ethnic composition - Greek Epirus (1,5%) - approximately 5-8 generations back on the direct maternal line. Sophia Clavone on her maternal side was a descendant of the noble aristocratic family of Pantalis Mavrocordatos originating from the island of Chios which was part of Byzantine Anatolia and later Ottoman Empire.

 

This historical and ethnic mark of Seraphina's direct maternal line can be found in her mother's ancient ethnicities going back as far as:

 

  • Bronze Age 3400 -1500 BC -  Bronze Age Anatolian (25,8%)

  • Iron Age 700 - 400BC - Greek (9,6%)

  • Late Antiquity 100 BC - 700 AD - Roman Anatolia (7,2%)

  • Middle Ages 500 -1100 AD - Byzantine Anatolia (2,8%)​​

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Seraphina's direct maternal line running from her mother, Sophie de PRITTWITZ (mtDNA K1a4j1, up to Seraphina's 6the great grandmother, Sophia Clavone, consists of 8 notable female ancestors:

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  1. Sophia Konstantinovna Clavone (married name Potocka) (1760-1822)

  2. Olga Stanislawovna Potocka (married name Naryshkina) (1802-1861)

  3. Sophia Lvovna Naryshkina (married name Shuvalova) (1830-1894)

  4. Olga Pavlovna Shuvalova (married name Dolgorukova) (1848-1927)

  5. Maria Alexandrovna Dolgorukova (married name Trubetskaya) (1869-1949)

  6. Maria Yurievna Trubetskaya (married name Bobrinskay) (1894-1990)

  7. Elena Petrovna Bobrynskaya (married name PRITTWITZ) (1919-2013)

  8. Sophia (Sophie) de PRITTWITZ (married name DRUON) (1952--)

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