DNA testing has disproved Mi’kmaq ancestry and DNA has proven Mi’kmaq ancestry. DNA testing determined the MTDNA haplogroup of Edmee and Catherine Lejeune to be U6A7a1 which is a MTDNA haplogroup that originated in the Iberian Peninsula, proving that both women are not of Mi’kmaq ancestry. MTDNA U6a7a1 is found in France, Italy and Mauritania with U6a7a1a found among the Acadians and U6a7a1b found among Sephardic Jews
