I don't think you understand Apollo. Somalis DON"T have the marker, which IS found in Ethiopians. I bow to his expertise but note this:
https://bmcevolbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2148-14-109
U6a2
Subclade- location- date of origin
- "U6a2a: found in Ethiopia"
U6a2b Ethiopia 8600
U6a2a1a Ethiopia 8600
U6a5a West Africa 8600
U6a5b Sub-Saharan Africa 7200
U6a3f Sub-Saharan Africa 6500
U6a2a1b Ethiopia 5900
U6a2b1 Ethiopia 5200
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These are all specific subclades of U6a that do not relate to other areas. You are welcome to your opinion, but I think Apollo is on to something. At the very least, U6a2 distinguishes Somalis from Ethiopians. I do admit that the "Puntite" bit requires a reading of the archaeology of the Gash river basin, which you should look into..
Take up your fight with Apollo. I am not a good surrogate.
I can't talk to a guy that rejects all my sources.
"In 2013, a research unit led by Rabab Khairat of the University of Tübingen completed the first genetic study utilizing next-generation sequencing techniques to gauge the ancestral lineage of an ancient Egyptian. The scientists extracted DNA from the heads of five Egyptian mummies dating from the late Dynastic to Ptolemaic periods (806 BCE–124 CE). They found that one of the mummified individuals belonged to the I2 mtDNA haplogroup. This discovery is especially interesting for a number of reasons. Firstly, the I maternal clade is believed to have originated in West Asia, which implies early migrations from this area into Northeast Africa. Secondly, haplogroup I is today quite rare globally and exceeds 5% in few populations. The clade is by far most common among Cushitic speakers, and has been observed at frequencies as high as 23% among some remnant groups in the Great Lakes region. Thirdly, the basal or ancestral I* haplogroup has only been identified in three persons worldwide. Of these individuals, two are from Somalia and the other is from Iran (cf. Olivieri (2013)). Lastly, I2 (formerly known as N1e) is a subclade of N1, a maternal haplogroup that is also rare nowadays but likewise peaks in frequency among Afro-Asiatic speakers in the Horn".
Now you and @Apollo can stop your BS.
@Factz