Paternal line · Y-DNA
North Africa’s Berber line
E-M81
Where it is common today
North Africa's signature line — highest among Berber-speaking peoples of the Maghreb.
How old it is
This branch split from its parent about 13,600 years ago (between 12,000 and 15,200).
Every man who carries it today descends from one man who lived about 4,200 years ago (between 3,500 and 4,900).
From the big letter down to this branch
- E-P147
- E-P177
- E-M5557
- E-M215
- E-M35
- E-Z827
- E-L19
- E-M81
Every test reads your line to a different depth. One report says J1, another J-P58, another a code four steps further down — all of them are right, the longer one is simply more detailed. HealthOS reads as deep as your file allows.
Ancient people who carried it
4 ancient genomes in the Allen Ancient DNA Resource carry this line. The oldest is from Sitifis, Algeria, around AD 150.
- Carrer Sagunto 49, SpainAD 1,2002 people
- Sitifis, AlgeriaAD 1501 people
- Tenerife, Canary IslandsAD 8101 people
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