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Table 2 shows the allele frequency distributions for Flemish members of Haplogroup
R1b, while Table 3 presents similar data from Haplogroup I1. However, note that for
some markers there is insufficient data for an accurate calculation of the allele
frequencies or even the modal value—these are subject to change as more data is
accumulated. Table 4 provides the haplogroup distributions for the pooled Flemish
haplotypes.
A comparison of Figures 4 and
5 shows that the data obtained
via
the
FFDNA
project
corresponds closely to the 113
records used by G. Mertens in
a study of paternity cases in
Belgium.
The dominant haplogroup in
both cases was R1b, which
represents between 54% and
56.6% of the total.
Figure 4 Distribution of haplogroups in the original (2007)
FFDNA project analysis. In this chart, the names of the
haplogroups are those that were in use at that time
(ISOGG 2007)

The second largest haplogroup in these two samples is Haplogroup I1 which
represents between 19.5% and 25% of the total. Other haplogroups that occur are
E1b1b, representing between 2% and 4.4%, and Haplogroup G2a, representing
between 3.5% and 7% of the population. A difference between the FFDNA sample
and the Mertens dataset is in the occurrence of Haplogroup R1a, which represents 7%
in the first sample and does not appear in the second, though if the true frequency is
only 1-2%, this is not a surprising result.

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