Genetic history of the Dutch Caribbean - Haplogroups & Autosomal DNA
For quite a while now I have been interested in the Genetic history of the Dutch Caribbean, Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao, Saba, Sint Maarten, Sint Eusatius. For now I am interested in the haplogroups of the Dutch Caribbean. The mtDNA is our oldest female ancestor, it isnt more important than autosomal, but it very interesting to see that someone could be descendant from a African female, but after generations and generation her descendants would be white looking. etc. For example, your great-grandmother could be very African looking, but yet her female line could traced to a European female.
Only males can have a yDNA, women can not. Just mtDNA, yDNA dont always match with autosomal results. For example, due to slavery there are many Black men in the Caribbean/Latin America and USA who have a paternal line which can be traced to a European male, especially in areas or islands where racial mixing happend very often. Both African and European population was very diverse, many people from different ethnicities came to the islands, willingly and many came to the islands in chains. Even though this is just about haplogroups and not autosomal DNA, this can very well reflect on how the population was 'created'.
Of course, we need to get more samples but this current data is quite telling. Who knows what the future has in store for us? Here is a list of the haplogroups that are being found, and its 'racial' origin and how many people have this haplogroup.
For starters, before I started this project I was thinking in my head what kind of haplogroups will be found in the Dutch Caribbean, I knew that since it was pretty much very multucultural and racial place, I would find different kinds. I was susprised that I didnt discover any SSA yDNA yet! As you can see, most men decent from a European male via their paternal line, with some I dont even know if its European at all or perhaps Amerindian (Which would be rare) or Asian.
The mtDNA's was more diverse than the yDNA's, most females and males descended from either a Amerindian, SSA, or European woman with 1 person maybe descending from a North African female. If you compare this with the yDNA's, you can see that in the times of slavery that European men were having sexual intercourse (either via force or love) with Amerindian and SSA women, but that some of the colonists also brought their own women or even family to the islands.
Of course, if we get more samples in the future there may be some increase of SSA ydna's, but I dont believe that it surpass the European yDNA's. Perhaps one day we even might find a Amerindian yDNA!. But I believe that SSA and Amerindian mtDNA will be the most dominant, and European and MENA (Due to Sephardic Jews) will be the most dominant.
Going by the data that we currently have (NOTE: This will be updated everytime there is new sample)
yDNA
29.63% of the Dutch Caribbean population descends from a European male, 2.16% from a Asian male, and 3.24% from a MENA (Middle East & North African) male.
mtDNA
15.74% of the Dutch Caribbean population descends from a Amerindian female, 33.33% from a European female and 19.27% from a Sub-Saharan African woman.
However, going by Autosomal DNA results (Which is more important than Haplogroups, it basically tells you what your ancestors where the last 500 years and how you inherit their DNA, it tells you if you are 100% White or 100% Black etc.) we can see how much African, European and Amerindian genes (The founder populations) these individuals have.
Most of them had other mixtures besides the three that I have mentioned, but I didnt include those. NOTE: This is NOT accurate because there isn't enough samples.
Most of them had other mixtures besides the three that I have mentioned, but I didnt include those. NOTE: This is NOT accurate because there isn't enough samples.
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