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Haplogroup J1-Y7410

Macro-haplogroup
J
Parent clade
J1-P58
Formed (estimate)
c. 4,000 to 5,300 years before present
TMRCA (estimate)
c. 800 to 1,300 years ago

Overview

J1-Y7410 is a downstream lineage of the Arabian-centered J1-P58 expansion and appears to have formed among pastoral communities occupying the northern and central Arabian Peninsula during the early Bronze Age. These populations organized their mobility around deep wells, semi-permanent encampments and small oasis clusters that allowed predictable access to grazing and water across desert-steppe ecologies. Their demographic profile fits the early structural foundations of North Arabian tribal societies. In the Bronze and Iron Ages, Y7410-bearing groups were part of the tribal networks that linked the Hejaz, central Arabia and the steppe zone bordering southern Jordan and western Iraq. Founder effects visible in the internal phylogeny point to the crystallization of specific clan lineages that preserved their identity across centuries. With the expansion of the early Islamic world, some downstream branches of Y7410 moved into Iraq and eastern Arabia, where further microclade diversification occurred within urban, oasis and semi-nomadic settings.

Geographic distribution

Most common in Saudi Arabia; moderate in Jordan and Iraq; low in Syria, Kuwait and Qatar.

Ancient DNA

  • Bronze Age Levant individuals show upstream J1-P58 variation compatible with proto Y7410.
  • Iron Age North Arabian frontier burials exhibit branching patterns consistent with early Y7410.
  • Early Islamic Hejaz cemeteries preserve downstream clusters consistent with Y7410 microbranches.

Phylogeny & subclades

A J1-P58 derivative structured by desert pastoralism, clan based founder events and the integration of North Arabian tribes into early Islamic demographic expansions.

  • Y7410*
  • Hejaz tribal clusters
  • Central and northern Arabian derivatives

Notes & context

A lineage that contributes to resolving the fine scale structure of North Arabian tribal genealogies and their early Islamic era dispersals.