Is Haplogroup R-BY152518 rare?

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My Y-DNA Confirmed Haplogroup is R-BY152518?

Is That Haplogroup so rear?

Have anyone same? Or maybe R-BY152600?
WikiTree profile: Kari Lääveri
in Genealogy Help by Harri Lääveri G2G Crew (490 points)

3 Answers

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Seems that way!

R-U106 Germanic

19,031 testers matching.

R-P312 Celtic

53,300 testers matching.    . ,

R-DF27 Iberian-Celtic

10,426 testers matching.

R-BY152518

2 testers matching 1 in France 1 in Finland.

http://scaledinnovation.com/gg/snpTracker.html

https://www.eupedia.com/europe/Haplogroup_R1b_Y-DNA.shtml
by Frank Blankenship G2G6 Pilot (134k points)
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It depends on what you mean by "rare" really. I assume it is what Frank showed above, a comparison to all other haplogroups... So yes in that sense.

The answer isn't that simple though imho. We have to take demographics into consideration. How many men are actually available to test in the first place. Spencer noted in his paper Macrogenealogy (http://scaledinnovation.com/gg/ext/NYG&B_webinar.pdf) a testing bias involving Americans because of the unprecedented population growth over the past 200 years. The difference being about 200 to 1 available testers...
He also noted the Power Law that kind of describes the situation as well; "The big get bigger: families/tribes/clades with more people have more children, then more grandchildren, etc, etc"

If you were to compare the number of testers in your haplogroup to the number actually available to test, it might not be rare at all...

Finally the unknown factor... it could simply be people in your haplogroup just are not as interested as those in other haplogroups...lol

If you catch the fever like the rets of us, you might consider starting a Group at FTDNA to answer those questions, maybe one devoted to your country?
by Chris Campbell G2G6 (6.7k points)
+3 votes
The R1b ALL SUBCLADES DNA Project at FTDNA is a good start. You might consider joining that DNA Project, and they will automatically try to place you in context with the many other linages that make up R1b.

https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/r-1b/about/background
by Frank Blankenship G2G6 Pilot (134k points)

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