Buba Surname: Y-DNA Haplogroup
Published genetics research or a documented case study links the surname Buba to a specific Y-DNA paternal-line haplogroup.
J-P58 (Cohen Modal Haplotype)
Clade J1
Also spelled: Basena, Sena, Lemba (clan within Lemba people)
The Buba clan of the Bantu-speaking, traditionally endogamous Lemba people carries the Cohen Modal Haplotype at high frequency (7 of 11 clan-designated CMH carriers were Buba; association P<.0001 in a 399-chromosome, six-population study). Lemba oral tradition holds the Buba clan led their ancestors from Judea via Sena (Yemen).
Source: Thomas MG, Parfitt T, Weiss DA, et al. "Y Chromosomes Traveling South: The Cohen Modal Haplotype and the Origins of the Lemba-the 'Black Jews of Southern Africa'." American Journal of Human Genetics. 2000;66(2):674-686.
How to read this. A surname match means some people with that surname, in a specific study or family record, were found to share a haplogroup, most likely due to a shared patrilineal ancestor generations back. It is not proof that you personally carry that haplogroup: surnames change through adoption, remarriage, non-paternity events, and independent origin of the same name in different families. For your own confirmed haplogroup, test your DNA with our HaploAI Y-DNA/mtDNA predictor.
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