{"id":72,"date":"2011-11-08T09:35:05","date_gmt":"2011-11-08T14:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sintheta.org\/mcgene\/?p=72"},"modified":"2011-11-08T09:47:49","modified_gmt":"2011-11-08T14:47:49","slug":"possible-3rd-to-4th-cousin-eugene-yurtsev","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sintheta.org\/mcgene\/?p=72","title":{"rendered":"3rd to 4th cousin &#8211; Eugene Yurtsev &#8211; Closest possible unknown relative identified to date."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eugene Yurtsev is the closest possible unknown relative identified to date.  Eugene and I have made contact on 23andMe.  <\/p>\n<p>Third cousin means that we might share great-great-grandparents, in other words, Frank&#8217;s grandparents. <\/p>\n<p>He will be exploring his family tree with his family in the coming days.  What I have learned is that a few years ago he migrated to the United States from Israel where he and his family had migrated from Belarus (600 km x 600 km; landlocked; surrounded by Ukraine, Poland, Russia, Latvia and Lithuania).<\/p>\n<p>The lab matching determined that we share 0.41% of our genes and 4 chromosome segments: two on chr 1, and one each on 6 and 12.<\/p>\n<p>However, we don&#8217;t share common Y haplotype or Mitochondrial haplotype.  Since his Y chromosome is not our E, then his intervening line of descent, at some stage was through the maternal line.<\/p>\n<p>My brother Brian shares two on chr 1 and 1 on chr 6.  Curiously, my son David shares the most segments, 5, whereas son Jon shares none at all.<\/p>\n<p>David shares:  chr 1 x2; chr 6 x 2; chr 12 x 1.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eugene Yurtsev is the closest possible unknown relative identified to date. Eugene and I have made contact on 23andMe. Third cousin means that we might share great-great-grandparents, in other words, Frank&#8217;s grandparents. He will be exploring his family tree with his family in the coming days. What I have learned is that a few years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,5,24,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dna","category-immigration","category-relatives-pending","category-semitics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sintheta.org\/mcgene\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sintheta.org\/mcgene\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sintheta.org\/mcgene\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sintheta.org\/mcgene\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sintheta.org\/mcgene\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sintheta.org\/mcgene\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sintheta.org\/mcgene\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sintheta.org\/mcgene\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sintheta.org\/mcgene\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}