Nadene Goldfoot
W (Wilma) is a small group that appears in the western Ural Mountains, the natural border between Europe and Asia and the eastern Baltic area, and is also found in India. This is what my Polish/Lithuania grandmother turned out to be. Not all W’s are Jewish, of course, in fact, not many. It occurred first about 20,000-25,000 years ago in NE Europe or NW Asia. It is figured that 1.8 million carry W in Poland, and 2.7 million carry it in Russia. It's found all over the world. Its highest frequency is in Ukraine, European Russia, Baltic countries and Finland (3 to 5% overall), as well as in northern Pakistan (15%), Punjab (9%) and Gujarat (12%). In India it is considerably more common among the upper castes and among Indo-European speakers.
Haplogroup W is particularly common in the eastern half of Europe, in the North Caucasus, in Central Asia, in Iran and in the north-west of the Indian subcontinent. In Europe, the maximum frequencies of W are observed in Finland (9.5%), Hungary (5%), Latvia (4%), Macedonia (4%) and Belarus (3.5%, but over 5% if we exclude the south). Haplogroup W is also well represented among some ethnicities of the North Caucasus, such as the Karachay-Balkars (8%), Avars (8%), Svans (8%) and Adyghe-Kabardin (5%).
In Asia, haplogroup W is most common among the northern Pakistani (8%), Tajiks (6%), northwest Indians (5%) and Iranians (3.5%), but is also found around 1.5% among the Uzbeks, Turkmens and Kazakhs, and at trace frequencies (< 0.5%) among many North Asian ethnic groups (Tuva, Yakuts, Buryats, Mongolians, Koreans, Japanese).
Haplogroup W is descended from haplogroup N2. In Europe, the N2 types have their highest frequency of 20% among Volga-Uralic populations. The extreme western border of the spread of N2 is Finland, where this haplogroup occurs only at marginal frequency – 0.4%.Dec 6, 2006
W is defined by 11 new mutations thought to have arisen during the Late Glacial period, probably somewhere around the Caspian Sea some time between 16,000 and 20,000 years ago. The oldest branch to develop was W1, which emerged about 15,000 years ago, followed by W3 and W6. The mutations for W4, W5 and W7 might be as recent as 9,000 or 10,000 years before present. (Neither W nor N were known to Bryan Sykes so are not in his book, The Seven Daughters of Eve.)
"Haplogroup W is derived from the N superhaplogroup, which dates to approximately 65,000 years ago, possibly the N2a. The origin of haplogroup W dates to approximately 25,000 years ago, and it is mainly found distributed in west Eurasia (or Europe). It is likely that individuals bearing this lineage participated in the expansion into the bulk of Europe following the Last Glacial Maximum. Future work, including obtaining more samples from central Asia, will further refine the historical distribution of this haplogroup and better determine the role it played in the peopling of Europe".
Actually, 14 types are found in Ashkenazie Jews that were found by Behar, main researcher in dna of the Jewish people. My paternal grandmother was W 16145A, 16223T, 16265G, 16519C.
Jewish W made up 3.1% in a test in Poland and 2.7% in Russia and the Ukraine. http://www.thecid.com/where.htm, contributed about 1.6% to Jewish group.
Additionally, the clade has been observed among ancient Egyptian mummies excavated at the Abusir el-Meleq archaeological site in Middle Egypt, which date from the Ptolemaic Kingdom.Resource:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_0v8xnY-EU
https://jewishfactsfromportland.blogspot.com/2010/01/what-haplogroup-we-be.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_W_(mtDNA)
https://www.eupedia.com/europe/Haplogroup_W_mtDNA.shtml
https://www.familytreedna.com/my/mtdna-haplogroup-origins
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