The Lost Creek DNA Project


Test Information

  • Taken by S.L. Goins 
    Vendor 23andMe 
    Test Type mtDNA (Mitochondrial) 
    Test Group Maternal Ancestor - mtDNA test results 
    Most distant ancestor Priscilla Powell,   b. Abt 1798, Virginia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Most recent common ancestor Helen Lynette Shepard,   b. 18 Apr 1946, Terre Haute, Vigo, Indiana, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 4 Jan 2008, Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana, USA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Haplogroup H1c3 - Confirmed 

Geographic distribution

Haplogroup H is the most common and most diverse maternal lineage in Europe, in most of the Near East and in the Caucasus region. The Saami of Lapland are the only ethnic group in Europe who have low percentages of haplogroup H, varying from 0% to 7%. The frequency of haplogroup H in Europe usually ranges between 40% and 50%. The lowest frequencies are observed in Cyprus (31%), Finland (36%), Iceland (38%) as well as Belarus, Ukraine, Romania and Hungary (all 39%). The only region where H exceeds 50% of the population are Asturias (54%) and Galicia (58%) in northern Spain, and Wales (60%).

Haplogroup H possesses approximately 90 basal subclades identified to date, most of which further subdivided in other subclades. The most common subclades are H1, H2, H3, H4, H5, H6, H7, H10, H11, H13, H14 and H20. The Cambridge Reference Sequence (CRS), the human mitochondrial sequence to which all other sequences are compared, belongs to haplogroup H2a2a.