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Pike DNA

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Location	Newfoundland, Canada
Introduction	I have been engaged with genetic genealogy since 2004 when I founded the Y-DNA project for the PIKE surname and its variants. This project now has over 250 participants residing in over a dozen countries. Overall we have now found evidence of more than twenty distinct genetic clusters for the Pike surname, the largest of which accounts for about 25% of all Pikes who have tested their Y-DNA (and who have been found to share a profile within haplogroup R1a). My personal Pike lineage belongs to the R-L554 subgroup of haplogroup R1b; while it has been in Newfoundland for several centuries, it hails from a Pike family that was at Poole in the late 1600s. I have also been involved with genealogical applications of mitochondrial DNA and autosomal DNA, for which I am a coordinator for corresponding projects for the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.

Location

Newfoundland, Canada

Introduction

I have been engaged with genetic genealogy since 2004 when I founded the Y-DNA project for the PIKE surname and its variants. This project now has over 250 participants residing in over a dozen countries. Overall we have now found evidence of more than twenty distinct genetic clusters for the Pike surname, the largest of which accounts for about 25% of all Pikes who have tested their Y-DNA (and who have been found to share a profile within haplogroup R1a). My personal Pike lineage belongs to the R-L554 subgroup of haplogroup R1b; while it has been in Newfoundland for several centuries, it hails from a Pike family that was at Poole in the late 1600s. I have also been involved with genealogical applications of mitochondrial DNA and autosomal DNA, for which I am a coordinator for corresponding projects for the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.