What are Haplogroups? Genetic classification within a population or community is called a haplogroup. Inherited genetic markers, mutations in genes, or shared DNA define haplogroups.

It's a mystery that has left experts scratching their heads for decades, but just how did humans make their way from Europe ...

There was a population expansion around 7,000 years ago in southern Australia, with people from the O haplogroup spreading outward and into the continent's interior.

This is a public service announcement. If you are a user of direct-to-consumer personal genomics services, please do not pay any attention to your mtDNA and Y chromosomal haplogroups. Why? Because ...

Scientists have been baffled by how Haplogroup X arrived more than 12,000 years ago, raising new questions about how the Americas were first populated. Haplogroup X is a rare maternal DNA lineage, ...

Explore the Cohen Modal Haplotype's role in Jewish priesthood lineages and its implications for Y chromosome haplogroups.

The Y chromosome retains a remarkable record of human ancestry, passed directly from father to son. In an article published online today in Genome Research, scientists have utilized recently ...

Purpose It has been hypothesised that certain mitochondrial haplogroups, which are defined by the presence of a characteristic cluster of tightly linked mitochondrial DNA polymorphisms, would be ...

The haplogroup distribution is homogeneous in the population samples from Córdoba province, with haplogroups C and D always found at the highest frequencies. The sample from San Luis province, ...