haplogroup U

{{Infobox haplogroup

| name = U

| origin-date = 46,500 ± 3,300 years agoBehar et al. (2012), note the revised estimate of 42–58 key based on ancient DNA by Hervella et al. (2016).

| origin-place = West AsiaHervella et al. (2016) "Individuals carrying haplogroup U possibly spread westward from Western Asia around 39–52 ky, reaching Europe as signaled by haplogroup U5, and North Africa signaled by haplogroup U6"

| ancestor = R

| descendants = U1, U5, U6, U2'3'4'7'8'9

| mutations = 11467, 12308, 12372

}}

Haplogroup U is a human mitochondrial DNA haplogroup (mtDNA). The clade arose from haplogroup R, likely during the early Upper Paleolithic. Its various subclades (labelled U1–U9, diverging over the course of the Upper Paleolithic) are found widely distributed across Northern and Eastern Europe, Central, Western and South Asia, as well as North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and the Canary Islands.

Origins

Haplogroup U descends from the haplogroup R mtDNA branch of the phylogenetic tree. The defining mutations (A11467G, A12308G, G12372A) are estimated to have arisen between 43,000 and 50,000 years ago, in the early Upper Paleolithic (around 46,530 ± 3,290 years before present, with a 95% confidence interval per Behar et al., 2012).

Ancient DNA classified as belonging to the U* mitochondrial haplogroup has been recovered from human skeletal remains found in Western Siberia, which have been dated to c. 45,000 years ago.{{cite journal | vauthors = Larruga JM, Marrero P, Abu-Amero KK, Golubenko MV, Cabrera VM | title = Carriers of mitochondrial DNA macrohaplogroup R colonized Eurasia and Australasia from a southeast Asia core area | journal = BMC Evolutionary Biology | volume = 17 | issue = 1 | page = 115 | date = May 2017 | pmid = 28535779 | pmc = 5442693 | doi = 10.1186/s12862-017-0964-5 | doi-access = free | bibcode = 2017BMCEE..17..115L }}

{{cite journal | vauthors = Marrero P, Abu-Amero KK, Larruga JM, Cabrera VM | title = Carriers of human mitochondrial DNA macrohaplogroup M colonized India from southeastern Asia | journal = BMC Evolutionary Biology | volume = 16 | issue = 1 | page = 246 | date = November 2016 | pmid = 27832758 | pmc = 5105315 | doi = 10.1186/s12862-016-0816-8 | doi-access = free | bibcode = 2016BMCEE..16..246M }} The mitogenome (33-fold coverage) of the Peştera Muierii 1 individual (PM1) from Romania (35 ky cal BP) has been identified as the basal haplogroup U6* not previously found in any ancient or present-day humans.{{cite journal | vauthors = Hervella M, Svensson EM, Alberdi A, Günther T, Izagirre N, Munters AR, Alonso S, Ioana M, Ridiche F, Soficaru A, Jakobsson M, Netea MG, de-la-Rua C | display-authors = 6 | title = The mitogenome of a 35,000-year-old Homo sapiens from Europe supports a Palaeolithic back-migration to Africa | journal = Scientific Reports | volume = 6 | page = 25501 | date = May 2016 | pmid = 27195518 | pmc = 4872530 | doi = 10.1038/srep25501 | bibcode = 2016NatSR...625501H }}.

Haplogroup U has been found among Iberomaurusian specimens dating from the Epipaleolithic at the Taforalt and Afalou prehistoric sites.{{cite journal | vauthors = Secher B, Fregel R, Larruga JM, Cabrera VM, Endicott P, Pestano JJ, González AM | title = The history of the North African mitochondrial DNA haplogroup U6 gene flow into the African, Eurasian and American continents | journal = BMC Evolutionary Biology | volume = 14 | page = 109 | date = May 2014 | issue = 1 | pmid = 24885141 | pmc = 4062890 | doi = 10.1186/1471-2148-14-109 | doi-access = free | bibcode = 2014BMCEE..14..109S }} Among the Taforalt individuals, around 13% of the observed haplotypes belonged to various U subclades, including U4a2b (1/24; 4%), U4c1 (1/24; 4%), and U6d3 (1/24; 4%). A further 41% of the analysed haplotypes could be assigned to either haplogroup U or haplogroup H. Among the Afalou individuals, 44% of the analysed haplotypes could be assigned to either haplogroup U or haplogroup H (3/9; 33%).{{cite journal | vauthors = Kefi R, Hechmi M, Naouali C, Jmel H, Hsouna S, Bouzaid E, Abdelhak S, Beraud-Colomb E, Stevanovitch A | display-authors = 6 | title = On the origin of Iberomaurusians: new data based on ancient mitochondrial DNA and phylogenetic analysis of Afalou and Taforalt populations | journal = Mitochondrial DNA Part A | volume = 29 | issue = 1 | pages = 147–157 | date = January 2018 | pmid = 28034339 | doi = 10.1080/24701394.2016.1258406 | s2cid = 4490910 }}

Haplogroup U has also been observed among ancient Egyptian mummies excavated at the Abusir el-Meleq archaeological site in Middle Egypt, dated to the 1st millennium BC, 13 of the 90 mummies bearing haplgroup U (U carriers all of the late period) and various subclades of it, U, U1,U3,U5,U6,U7 and U8.{{cite journal | vauthors = Schuenemann VJ, Peltzer A, Welte B, van Pelt WP, Molak M, Wang CC, Furtwängler A, Urban C, Reiter E, Nieselt K, Teßmann B, Francken M, Harvati K, Haak W, Schiffels S, Krause J | display-authors = 6 | title = Ancient Egyptian mummy genomes suggest an increase of Sub-Saharan African ancestry in post-Roman periods | journal = Nature Communications | volume = 8 | page = 15694 | date = May 2017 | pmid = 28556824 | pmc = 5459999 | doi = 10.1038/ncomms15694 | bibcode = 2017NatCo...815694S }} and in a separate study, DNA extracted from a tooth the mummified head of a much older mummy of about 4,000 years ago Djehutynakht of the very end of the 11th or early 12th Dynasty who belonged to mtDNA haplogroup U5b2b5 (with no exact matches found in a modern population of U5 carriers) from a 2018 article by Odile Loreille et al.{{Cite journal| title=Biological Sexing of a 4000-Year-Old Egyptian Mummy Head to Assess the Potential of Nuclear DNA Recovery from the Most Damaged and Limited Forensic Specimens |year=2018|pmc=5867856|last1=Loreille|first1=O.|last2=Ratnayake|first2=S.|last3=Bazinet|first3=A. L.|last4=Stockwell|first4=T. B.|last5=Sommer|first5=D. D.|last6=Rohland|first6=N.|last7=Mallick|first7=S.|last8=Johnson|first8=P. L.|last9=Skoglund|first9=P.|last10=Onorato|first10=A. J.|last11=Bergman|first11=N. H.|last12=Reich|first12=D.|last13=Irwin|first13=J. A.|journal=Genes|volume=9|issue=3|page=135|doi=10.3390/genes9030135|pmid=29494531|doi-access=free}}

The first European lineage of haplogroup U in Iron Age Central China is represented by Chieftain Yu Hong (North China, 533–592 AD).{{Cite journal |last=Xie |first=C. Z. |last2=Li |first2=C. X. |last3=Cui |first3=Y. Q. |last4=Zhang |first4=Q. C. |last5=Fu |first5=Y. Q. |last6=Zhu |first6=H. |last7=Zhou |first7=H. |date=2007-07-07 |title=Evidence of ancient DNA reveals the first European lineage in Iron Age Central China |url=https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2169275/ |journal=Proceedings. Biological Sciences |volume=274 |issue=1618 |pages=1597–1601 |doi=10.1098/rspb.2007.0219 |issn=0962-8452 |pmc=2169275 |pmid=17456455}}

Additionally, haplogroup U has been observed in ancient Guanche fossils excavated in Gran Canaria and Tenerife on the Canary Islands, which have been radiocarbon-dated to between the 7th and 11th centuries CE. All of the clade-bearing individuals were inhumed at the Tenerife site, with these specimens found to belong to the U6b1a (4/7; 57%) and U6b (1/7; 14%) subclades.{{cite journal | vauthors = Rodríguez-Varela R, Günther T, Krzewińska M, Storå J, Gillingwater TH, MacCallum M, Arsuaga JL, Dobney K, Valdiosera C, Jakobsson M, Götherström A, Girdland-Flink L | display-authors = 6 | title = Genomic Analyses of Pre-European Conquest Human Remains from the Canary Islands Reveal Close Affinity to Modern North Africans | journal = Current Biology | volume = 27 | issue = 21 | pages = 3396–3402.e5 | date = November 2017 | pmid = 29107554 | doi = 10.1016/j.cub.2017.09.059 | doi-access = free | bibcode = 2017CBio...27E3396R | hdl = 2164/13526 | hdl-access = free }}

Distribution

Haplogroup U is found in 15% of Indian caste and 8% of Indian tribal populations.{{cite thesis | degree = M.Sc. | url= http://dspace.utlib.ee/dspace/bitstream/handle/10062/567/karmin.pdf?sequence=5 | title=Human mitochondrial DNA haplogroup R in India | publisher=University of Tartu | last = Karmin | first = Monika | name-list-style = vanc | year=2005}}

Haplogroup U is found in approximately 11% of native Europeans and is held as the oldest maternal haplogroup found in that region.{{cite book | vauthors = Sykes B |author-link = Bryan Sykes |title=The Seven Daughters of Eve|year=2001|publisher=Bantam Press|location=London; New York|isbn=978-0-393-02018-2|title-link=The Seven Daughters of Eve}}{{cite web|title=Maternal Ancestry|url=http://www.oxfordancestors.com/content/view/35/55/|publisher=Oxford Ancestors|access-date=7 February 2013|url-status=usurped|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170715205636/http://www.oxfordancestors.com/content/view/35/55/|archive-date=15 July 2017}} In a 2013 study, all but one of the ancient modern human sequences from Europe belonged to maternal haplogroup U, thus confirming previous findings that haplogroup U was the dominant type of Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) in Europe before the spread of agriculture into Europe from the Near East.{{cite journal | vauthors = Fu Q, Mittnik A, Johnson PL, Bos K, Lari M, Bollongino R, Sun C, Giemsch L, Schmitz R, Burger J, Ronchitelli AM, Martini F, Cremonesi RG, Svoboda J, Bauer P, Caramelli D, Castellano S, Reich D, Pääbo S, Krause J | display-authors = 6 | title = A revised timescale for human evolution based on ancient mitochondrial genomes | journal = Current Biology | volume = 23 | issue = 7 | pages = 553–559 | date = April 2013 | pmid = 23523248 | pmc = 5036973 | doi = 10.1016/j.cub.2013.02.044 | bibcode = 2013CBio...23..553F }}

Haplogroup U has various subclades numbered U1 to U9. Haplogroup K is a subclade of U8.{{cite journal | vauthors = González AM, García O, Larruga JM, Cabrera VM | title = The mitochondrial lineage U8a reveals a Paleolithic settlement in the Basque country | journal = BMC Genomics | volume = 7 | issue = 1 | page = 124 | date = May 2006 | pmid = 16719915 | pmc = 1523212 | doi = 10.1186/1471-2164-7-124 | doi-access = free }} The old age has led to a wide distribution of the descendant subgroups across Western Eurasia, North Africa, and South Asia. Some subclades of haplogroup U have a more specific geographic range.

Subclades

Subclades are labelled U1–U9; Haplogroup K is a subclade of U8.

Van Oven and Kayser (2009) proposed subclades "U2'3'4'7'8" and "U4'9".{{cite journal | vauthors = van Oven M, Kayser M | title = Updated comprehensive phylogenetic tree of global human mitochondrial DNA variation | journal = Human Mutation | volume = 30 | issue = 2 | pages = E386-94 | date = February 2009 | pmid = 18853457 | doi = 10.1002/humu.20921 | s2cid = 27566749 | doi-access = free }} Behar et al. (2012) amended this by grouping "U4'9" as subordinate to "U2'3'4'7'8" for a new intermediate subclade "U2'3'4'7'8'9".

=Haplogroup U=

Basal U was found in the 26,000 years old remains of Ancient North Eurasian, Mal'ta boy (MA1).

=Haplogroup U1=

The U1 subclades are: U1a (with deep-subclades U1a1, U1a1a, U1a1a1, U1a1b){{cite web | url = http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ncscotts/mtDNA/GenBank%20Mutation%20Lists/hg%20U%20Phylogeny/U1.pdf | title = Phylogeny of mt-hg U3 | vauthors = Scott R | date = 2010 }} and U1b.

Haplogroup U1 estimated to have arisen between 26,000 and 37,000 years ago. It is found at very low frequency throughout Europe. It is more often observed in eastern Europe, Anatolia and the Near East. It is also found at low frequencies in India. U1 is found in the Svanetia region of Georgia at 4.2%. Subclade U1a is found from India to Europe, but is extremely rare among the northern and Atlantic fringes of Europe including the British Isles and Scandinavia. In India, U1a has been found in the Kerala region. U1b has a similar spread but is rarer than U1a. A variety of subclade U1b1 with the mutations G14070A! and A3426G is found in Ashkenazi Jews.{{cite book |last=Brook|first=Kevin Alan|page=100-101|date=2022|title=The Maternal Genetic Lineages of Ashkenazic Jews|publisher=Academic Studies Press|isbn=978-1-64469-984-3}} Subclades U1a and U1b appear in equal frequency in eastern Europe.{{cite web | url = https://www.familytreedna.com/public/U1mtDNA | work = FamilyTreeDNA | title = mtDNA haplogroup U1 project }}

The rare U1 clade is also found among Algerians in Oran (0.83%-1.08%) and the Reguibat tribe of the Sahrawi (0.93%).{{cite journal | vauthors = Bekada A, Arauna LR, Deba T, Calafell F, Benhamamouch S, Comas D | title = Genetic Heterogeneity in Algerian Human Populations | journal = PLOS ONE | volume = 10 | issue = 9 | pages = e0138453 | date = September 24, 2015 | pmid = 26402429 | pmc = 4581715 | doi = 10.1371/journal.pone.0138453 | bibcode = 2015PLoSO..1038453B | doi-access = free }}

The U1a1a subclade has been observed in an ancient individual excavated at the Kellis 2 cemetery in the Dakleh Oasis, located in the southwestern desert of Egypt. 21 of the Kellis burials have been radiocarbon-dated to around 80-445 AD, a timeframe within the Romano-Christian period.{{cite journal | vauthors = Molto JE, Loreille O, Mallott EK, Malhi RS, Fast S, Daniels-Higginbotham J, Marshall C, Parr R | display-authors = 6 | title = Complete Mitochondrial Genome Sequencing of a Burial from a Romano-Christian Cemetery in the Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt: Preliminary Indications | journal = Genes | volume = 8 | issue = 10 | page = 262 | date = October 2017 | pmid = 28984839 | pmc = 5664112 | doi = 10.3390/genes8100262 | doi-access = free }} Haplogroup U1 has also been found among specimens at the mainland cemetery in Kulubnarti, Sudan, which date from the Early Christian period (AD 550-800).{{cite journal | vauthors = Sirak K, Frenandes D, Novak M, Van Gerven D, Pinhasi R |title=Abstract Book of the IUAES Inter-Congress 2016 - A community divided? Revealing the community genome(s) of Medieval Kulubnarti using next- generation sequencing |journal=Abstract Book of the Iuaes Inter-Congress 2016 |date=2016 |page=115 |publisher=IUAES |url=https://bib.irb.hr/prikazi-rad?&lang=EN&rad=824672 }}

DNA analysis of excavated remains now located at ruins of the Church of St. Augustine in Goa, India have also revealed the unique mtDNA subclade U1b. This sublineage is absent in India, but present in Georgia and surrounding regions.{{cite journal | vauthors = Rai N, Taher N, Singh M, Chaubey G, Jha AN, Singh L, Thangaraj K | title = Relic excavated in western India is probably of Georgian Queen Ketevan | journal = Mitochondrion | volume = 14 | issue = 1 | pages = 1–6 | date = January 2014 | pmid = 24355295 | doi = 10.1016/j.mito.2013.12.002 }} Since the genetic analysis corroborates archaeological and literary evidence, it is believed that the excavated remains belong to Ketevan the Martyr, queen of Georgia.

U1
U1a
U1a1
U1a1a
U1a1a1
U1a1a1a
U1a1a2
U1a1a-G16129A!
U1a1a3
U1a1b
U1a1c
U1a1c1
U1a1c1a
U1a1c1b
U1a1c1c
U1a1c1c1
U1a1c1d
U1a1c1d1
U1a1d
U1a2
U1a3
U1b
U1b1
U1b2
U1b3

=Haplogroup U5=

The age of U5 is estimated at between 25,000 and 35,000 years old,{{cite web | title = Haplogroup U5 | url = http://haplogroup.org/mtdna/rsrs/l123456/l23456/l2346/l346/l34/l3/n/r/u/u5/ | work = haplogroup.org | quote = 30,248.3 ± 5,330.5; CI=95% (Behar et al., 2012) | date = 2016-06-06 | access-date = 2017-07-13 | archive-date = 2017-07-03 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170703085405/http://haplogroup.org/mtdna/rsrs/l123456/l23456/l2346/l346/l34/l3/n/r/u/u5/ | url-status = dead }} roughly corresponding to the Gravettian culture. Approximately 11% of Europeans (10% of European-Americans) have some variant of haplogroup U5. The haplogroup most likely originated in Europe.{{Cite journal |last1=Brandstätter |first1=Anita |last2=Zimmermann |first2=Bettina |last3=Wagner |first3=Janine |last4=Göbel |first4=Tanja |last5=Röck |first5=Alexander W. |last6=Salas |first6=Antonio |last7=Carracedo |first7=Angel |last8=Parson |first8=Walther |date=2008-07-04 |title=Timing and deciphering mitochondrial DNA macro-haplogroup R0 variability in Central Europe and Middle East |journal=BMC Evolutionary Biology |volume=8 |issue=1 |pages=191 |doi=10.1186/1471-2148-8-191 |doi-access=free |issn=1471-2148 |pmc=2491632 |pmid=18601722|bibcode=2008BMCEE...8..191B }}{{Cite journal |last1=Soares |first1=Pedro |last2=Achilli |first2=Alessandro |last3=Semino |first3=Ornella |last4=Davies |first4=William |last5=Macaulay |first5=Vincent |last6=Bandelt |first6=Hans-Jürgen |last7=Torroni |first7=Antonio |last8=Richards |first8=Martin B. |date=2010-02-23 |title=The Archaeogenetics of Europe |url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0960982209020697 |journal=Current Biology |language=en |volume=20 |issue=4 |pages=R174–R183 |doi=10.1016/j.cub.2009.11.054|pmid=20178764 |bibcode=2010CBio...20.R174S |doi-access=free }}

U5 was the predominant mtDNA of mesolithic Western Hunter Gatherers (WHG).

U5 has been found in human remains dating from the Mesolithic in England, Germany, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Russia,{{cite journal | vauthors = Bramanti B, Thomas MG, Haak W, Unterlaender M, Jores P, Tambets K, Antanaitis-Jacobs I, Haidle MN, Jankauskas R, Kind CJ, Lueth F, Terberger T, Hiller J, Matsumura S, Forster P, Burger J | display-authors = 6 | title = Genetic discontinuity between local hunter-gatherers and central Europe's first farmers | journal = Science | volume = 326 | issue = 5949 | pages = 137–40 | date = October 2009 | pmid = 19729620 | doi = 10.1126/science.1176869 | bibcode = 2009Sci...326..137B | s2cid = 206521424 | doi-access = free }} Sweden,{{cite journal | vauthors = Malmström H, Gilbert MT, Thomas MG, Brandström M, Storå J, Molnar P, Andersen PK, Bendixen C, Holmlund G, Götherström A, Willerslev E | display-authors = 6 | title = Ancient DNA reveals lack of continuity between neolithic hunter-gatherers and contemporary Scandinavians | journal = Current Biology | volume = 19 | issue = 20 | pages = 1758–62 | date = November 2009 | pmid = 19781941 | doi = 10.1016/j.cub.2009.09.017 | s2cid = 9487217 | doi-access = free | bibcode = 2009CBio...19.1758M }} France{{cite journal | vauthors = Deguilloux MF, Soler L, Pemonge MH, Scarre C, Joussaume R, Laporte L | title = News from the west: ancient DNA from a French megalithic burial chamber | journal = American Journal of Physical Anthropology | volume = 144 | issue = 1 | pages = 108–18 | date = January 2011 | pmid = 20717990 | doi = 10.1002/ajpa.21376 }} and Spain.{{cite journal | vauthors = Sánchez-Quinto F, Schroeder H, Ramirez O, Avila-Arcos MC, Pybus M, Olalde I, Velazquez AM, Marcos ME, Encinas JM, Bertranpetit J, Orlando L, Gilbert MT, Lalueza-Fox C | display-authors = 6 | title = Genomic affinities of two 7,000-year-old Iberian hunter-gatherers | journal = Current Biology | volume = 22 | issue = 16 | pages = 1494–9 | date = August 2012 | pmid = 22748318 | doi = 10.1016/j.cub.2012.06.005 | s2cid = 14913530 | url = http://repositori.upf.edu/bitstream/10230/25347/1/Sanchez_cur_gen.pdf | doi-access = free | bibcode = 2012CBio...22.1494S }} Neolithic skeletons (~7,000 years old) that were excavated from the Avellaner cave in Catalonia, northeastern Spain included a specimen carrying haplogroup U5.{{cite journal | vauthors = Lacan M, Keyser C, Ricaut FX, Brucato N, Tarrús J, Bosch A, Guilaine J, Crubézy E, Ludes B | display-authors = 6 | title = Ancient DNA suggests the leading role played by men in the Neolithic dissemination | journal = Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | volume = 108 | issue = 45 | pages = 18255–9 | date = November 2011 | pmid = 22042855 | pmc = 3215063 | doi = 10.1073/pnas.1113061108 | bibcode = 2011PNAS..10818255L | doi-access = free }}

Haplogroup U5 and its subclades U5a and U5b today form the highest population concentrations in the far north, among Sami, Finns, and Estonians. However, it is spread widely at lower levels throughout Europe. This distribution, and the age of the haplogroup, indicate individuals belonging to this clade were part of the initial expansion tracking the retreat of ice sheets from Europe around 10,000 years ago.

The modern Basques and Cantabrians possess almost exclusively U5b lineages (U5b1f, U5b1c1, U5b2).{{cite web | url = https://eupedia.com/europe/Haplogroup_U5_mtDNA.shtml | work = Eupedia | title = Haplogroup U5 }}{{cite web | url = http://www.khazaria.com/genetics/basques.html | work = Kazharia | title = Basque Genetics: Abstracts and Summaries }}

Additionally, haplogroup U5 is found in small frequencies and at much lower diversity in the Near East and parts of northern Africa (areas with sizable U6 concentrations), suggesting back-migration of people from Europe toward the south.{{cite web | url = https://www3.nationalgeographic.com/genographic/atlas.html | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20050413121925/http://www5.nationalgeographic.com/genographic/atlas.html | url-status = dead | archive-date = April 13, 2005 | title = The Genographic Project | work = National Geographic}}

Mitochondrial haplogroup U5a has also been associated with HIV infected individuals displaying accelerated progression to AIDS and death.{{cite journal | vauthors = Hendrickson SL, Hutcheson HB, Ruiz-Pesini E, Poole JC, Lautenberger J, Sezgin E, Kingsley L, Goedert JJ, Vlahov D, Donfield S, Wallace DC, O'Brien SJ | display-authors = 6 | title = Mitochondrial DNA haplogroups influence AIDS progression | journal = AIDS | volume = 22 | issue = 18 | pages = 2429–39 | date = November 2008 | pmid = 19005266 | pmc = 2699618 | doi = 10.1097/QAD.0b013e32831940bb }}

U5 was the main haplogroup of Mesolithic European hunter gatherers. U haplogroups were present at 83% in European hunter gatherers before influx of Middle Eastern farmer and steppe Indo-European ancestry decreased its frequency to less than 21%.

U5
U5a'b
U5a arose around 17,000 and 27,000 years ago
U5a1 arose between 14,000 and 20,000 years ago. Found in an Etruscan individual (700-600 B.C.) from southern Etruria, Italy.{{cite journal |last1= Antonio |first1=Margaret L.|last2=Gao |first2=Ziyue |last3=M. Moots |first3= Hannah |year=2019 |title=Ancient Rome: A genetic crossroads of Europe and the Mediterranean |journal=Science |language=English |location= Washington D.C.|publisher=American Association for the Advancement of Science |publication-date= November 8, 2019|volume= 366 |issue= 6466|pages=708–714 |bibcode= 2019Sci...366..708A|doi=10.1126/science.aay6826 |pmc= 7093155|pmid= 31699931}}
U5a1-T16192C!
U5a1a arose between 8,000 and 16,000 years ago
U5a1a1 arose between 3,000 and 11,000 years ago
U5a1a1-T152C!
U5a1a1a arose less than 6,000 years agoAge: 1,398.1 ± 1,872.3; CI=95% (Behar et al., 2012) [http://haplogroup.org/mtdna/rsrs/l123456/l23456/l2346/l346/l34/l3/n/r/u/u5/u5a/u5a1/u5a1a/u5a1a1/u5a1a1a/ haplogroup.org]{{Dead link|date=March 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
U5a1a1b arose around between 600 and 6,000 years ago
U5a1a1h
U5a1a1c
U5a1a1-T16362C
U5a1a1d arose less than 4,300 years ago
U5a1a1d1
U5a1a1e
U5a1a1g
U5a1a1i
U5a1a2 arose between 7,000 and 14,000 years ago
U5a1a2a arose less than 5,400 years ago
U5a1a2a1 arose less than 3,400 years ago
U5a1a2a1a
U5a1a2b
U5a1a2b1
U5a1g
U5a1g1
U5a1g2
U5a1b arose between 6,000 and 11,000 years ago
U5a1b1 arose between 5,000 and 9,000 years ago
U5a1b1a arose between 2,500 and 7,500 years ago
U5a1b1a1 arose less than 4,000 years ago
U5a1b1a2
U5a1b1a1
U5a1b1b arose less than 8,000 years ago
U5a1b1b1
U5a1b1c arose between 3,000 and 7,000 years ago
U5a1b1c1 arose less than 5,000 years ago
U5a1b1c2 arose less than 5,000 years ago
U5a1b1d
U5a1b1d-T16093C
U5a1b1d1
U5a1b1e
U5a1b1f
U5a1b1g
U5a1b1h
U5a1b2
U5a1b-T16362C
U5a1b3
U5a1b3a
U5a1b3a1
U5a1b4
U5a1c
U5a1c1
U5a1c1a
U5a1c2
U5a1c2a
U5a1c2a1
U5a1d arose around 19000 years ago
U5a1d1
U5a1d2
U5a1d2a
U5a1d2a1
U5a1d2b
U5a1e
U5a1f
U5a1f1
U5a1f1a
U5a1f1a1
U5a1f2
U5a1h
U5a1i
U5a1i1
U5a1j
U5a2 arose around 14000 years ago
U5a2-C16294T
U5a2a arose around 6000 years ago. It has been found in an ancient Mesolithic sample (6000-5000 cal BCE) from the Cave of Santimamiñe in the Basque Country, Spain.{{cite journal | vauthors = Palencia-Madrid L, Cardoso S, Keyser C, López-Quintana JC, Guenaga-Lizasu A, de Pancorbo MM | title = Ancient mitochondrial lineages support the prehistoric maternal root of Basques in Northern Iberian Peninsula | journal = European Journal of Human Genetics | volume = 25 | issue = 5 | pages = 631–636 | date = May 2017 | pmid = 28272540 | pmc = 5437903 | doi = 10.1038/ejhg.2017.24 }}
U5a2a1
U5a2a1a
U5a2a1b
U5a2a1b1
U5a2a1c
U5a2a1d
U5a2a1-T152C!
U5a2a1e
U5a2a2
U5a2a2a
U5a2b arose around 8000 years ago
U5a2b1
U5a2b1a
U5a2b1b
U5a2b1c
U5a2b1d
U5a2b2
U5a2b2a
U5a2b2a1
U5a2b3
U5a2b3a
U5a2b3a1
U5a2b4
U5a2b4a
U5a2b5
U5a2c arose around 13000 years ago
U5a2c1
U5a2c2
U5a2c3
U5a2c3a
U5a2c4
U5a2d found at the Mesolithic Huseby Klev site in western Sweden
U5a2d1
U5a2d1a
U5a2-T16362C
U5a2e
U5b arose between 19,000 and 26,000 years ago22,794.0 ± 3,590.3; CI=95% (Behar et al., 2012) [http://haplogroup.org/mtdna/rsrs/l123456/l23456/l2346/l346/l34/l3/n/r/u/u5/u5b/ haplogroup.org] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171011172132/http://haplogroup.org/mtdna/rsrs/l123456/l23456/l2346/l346/l34/l3/n/r/u/u5/u5b/ |date=2017-10-11 }} and has polymorphisms in 150 7768 14182 ( + U5 polymorphisms). Found among Siwa Berbers of the Siwa Oasis.{{cite journal | vauthors = Coudray C, Olivieri A, Achilli A, Pala M, Melhaoui M, Cherkaoui M, El-Chennawi F, Kossmann M, Torroni A, Dugoujon JM | display-authors = 6 | title = The complex and diversified mitochondrial gene pool of Berber populations | journal = Annals of Human Genetics | volume = 73 | issue = 2 | pages = 196–214 | date = March 2009 | pmid = 19053990 | doi = 10.1111/j.1469-1809.2008.00493.x | s2cid = 21826485 }}
U5b1 arose between 11,000 and 20,000 years ago.Age: 15,529.7 ± 4,889.9; CI=95% {{cite web | url = http://haplogroup.org/mtdna/rsrs/l123456/l23456/l2346/l346/l34/l3/n/r/u/u5/u5b/u5b1/ | title = mtDNA Haplogroup U5b1 | work = haplogroup.org | date = 2016-06-06 | access-date = 2017-07-13 | archive-date = 2017-03-22 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170322160014/http://haplogroup.org/mtdna/rsrs/l123456/l23456/l2346/l346/l34/l3/n/r/u/u5/u5b/u5b1/ | url-status = dead }} The Cheddar Man from Great Britain is a well known specimen.{{Cite web |title=Cheddar Man FAQ {{!}} Natural History Museum |url=https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/research/projects/human-adaptation-diet-disease/cheddar-man-faq.html |access-date=2025-03-29 |website=www.nhm.ac.uk |language=en}}
U5b1a
U5b1-T16189C!
U5b1b has been found in Saami of Scandinavia, Finnish and the Berbers of North Africa, which were found to share an extremely young branch, aged merely ~9,000 years. U5b1b was also found in Fulbe and Papel people in Guinea-Bissau and Yakuts people of northeastern Siberia.{{cite journal | vauthors = Rosa A, Ornelas C, Jobling MA, Brehm A, Villems R | title = Y-chromosomal diversity in the population of Guinea-Bissau: a multiethnic perspective | journal = BMC Evolutionary Biology | volume = 7 | issue = 1 | page = 124 | date = July 2007 | pmid = 17662131 | pmc = 1976131 | doi = 10.1186/1471-2148-7-124 | doi-access = free | bibcode = 2007BMCEE...7..124R }}{{cite journal | vauthors = Achilli A, Rengo C, Battaglia V, Pala M, Olivieri A, Fornarino S, Magri C, Scozzari R, Babudri N, Santachiara-Benerecetti AS, Bandelt HJ, Semino O, Torroni A | display-authors = 6 | title = Saami and Berbers--an unexpected mitochondrial DNA link | journal = American Journal of Human Genetics | volume = 76 | issue = 5 | pages = 883–6 | date = May 2005 | pmid = 15791543 | pmc = 1199377 | doi = 10.1086/430073 }} It arose around 11000 years ago.
U5b1b1
U5b1b1-T16192C!
U5b1b1a
U5b1b1a1
U5b1b1a1a
U5b1b1a1a1
U5b1b1a1b
U5b1b1a2
U5b1b1a3
U5b1b1b A principal element in the maternal western eurasian lineages in Puerto Rico, matching with samples from Senegambia and northern Cameroon indicating its presence as a product of early colonization and enslavement of Senegambians.{{cite journal | vauthors= Héctor DZ, María NC, Juan MC | title = A Mainly Circum Mediterranean Origin for West Eurasian and North African mtDNAs in Puerto Rico with Strong Contributions from the Canary Islands and West Africa | journal = Human Biology| volume = 89 | issue = 2 | pages = 125–155 | date = April 2017 | pmid = 29299964 | doi = 10.13110/humanbiology.89.2.04 | s2cid = 21941155 }}
U5b1b1-T152C!
U5b1b1e
U5b1b1g
U5b1b1g1
U5b1b1g1a
U5b1b2
U5b1b2a
U5b1b2b
U5b1c arose about 13,000 years ago
U5b1c1
U5b1c1a
U5b1c1a1
U5b1c2
U5b1c2a
U5b1c2b
U5b1-T16189C!-T16192C!
U5b1e arose about 6600 years ago. U5b1e is mainly seen in central Europe among Czechs, Slovaks, Hungarians and southern Russians.{{cite journal | vauthors = Malyarchuk B, Derenko M, Grzybowski T, Perkova M, Rogalla U, Vanecek T, Tsybovsky I | display-authors = 6 | title = The peopling of Europe from the mitochondrial haplogroup U5 perspective | journal = PLOS ONE | volume = 5 | issue = 4 | pages = e10285 | date = April 2010 | pmid = 20422015 | pmc = 2858207 | doi = 10.1371/journal.pone.0010285 | editor1-last = Gilbert | bibcode = 2010PLoSO...510285M | quote = Subcluster U5b2a is characterized by a predominantly central European distribution, since a large number of U5b samples from Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic fall into this subcluster. For instance, subcluster U5b2a2 is frequent in central Europe (with the highest frequency of its subcluster U5b2a2a1 in Poles) and dated as arising between 12–18 kya [...] It is also remarkable that within U5b2a1a, a Mediterranean branch precedes subcluster U5b2a1a1, which is characteristic of central and eastern European populations (Figure 1). Another U5b subcluster, U5b3, has its most likely homeland in the Italian Peninsula, from where it expanded in the Holocene along the Mediterranean coasts [11]. Hence, in general one may conclude that an initial diversification of U5b occurred in southern and central Europe, followed by the spread of a particular U5b subclusters into eastern Europe. | doi-access = free }}
U5b1e1
U5b1e1a
U5b1h
U5b1d
U5b1d1
U5b1d1a
U5b1d1b
U5b1d1c
U5b1d2
U5b1f
U5b1f1
U5b1f1a
U5b1g
U5b1i
U5b2 arose between 17,000 and 23,000 years ago20,040.2 ± 3,208.6; CI=95% (Behar et al., 2012) [http://haplogroup.org/mtdna/rsrs/l123456/l23456/l2346/l346/l34/l3/n/r/u/u5/u5b/u5b2/ haplogroup.org] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170617174518/http://haplogroup.org/mtdna/rsrs/l123456/l23456/l2346/l346/l34/l3/n/r/u/u5/u5b/u5b2/ |date=2017-06-17 }} and has polymorphisms in 1721 13637( + U5b polymorphisms). The clade has been found in remains dating from prehistoric times in Europe, such as the subclade U5b2c1 of La Braña man (found at the La Braña site in Spain). U5b2 is rare among French Basques (2.5%) and more frequent in the Spanish Basques.
U5b2a between 12,000 and 19,000 years ago,14,938.0 ± 3,656.4; CI=95% (Behar et al., 2012) [http://haplogroup.org/mtdna/rsrs/l123456/l23456/l2346/l346/l34/l3/n/r/u/u5/u5b/u5b2/u5b2a/ haplogroup.org] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170617174526/http://haplogroup.org/mtdna/rsrs/l123456/l23456/l2346/l346/l34/l3/n/r/u/u5/u5b/u5b2/u5b2a/ |date=2017-06-17 }} prevalent in Central Europe.
U5b2a1 between 9,000 and 18,000 years ago
U5b2a1a
U5b2a1a-T16311C!
U5b2a1a1
U5b2a1a1a
U5b2a1a1b
U5b2a1a1d
U5b2a1a2
U5b2a1b
U5b2a2 between 7,000 and 14,000 years ago
U5b2a2a
U5b2a2a1
U5b2a2a2
U5b2a2b
U5b2a2b1
U5b2a2c
U5b2a3 between 3,000 and 14,000 years ago
U5b2a3a
U5b2a-T16192C!
U5b2a4 between 1,000 and 10,000 years ago
U5b2a4a
U5b2a5 less than 2,600 years ago
U5b2a5a
U5b2a6 less than 12,000 years ago
U5b2b between 12,000 and 17,000 years ago.Age: 14,676.9 ± 2,716.6; CI=95% (Behar et al., 2012) [http://haplogroup.org/mtdna/rsrs/l123456/l23456/l2346/l346/l34/l3/n/r/u/u5/u5b/u5b2/u5b2b/ haplogroup.org] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170727123047/http://haplogroup.org/mtdna/rsrs/l123456/l23456/l2346/l346/l34/l3/n/r/u/u5/u5b/u5b2/u5b2b/ |date=2017-07-27 }} The clade was notably linked to Neve, who, at the time of her discovery, was the oldest identified female infant burial in Europe, carbon-dated to around 10,000 years ago.{{cite web |last1=Metcalfe |first1=Tom |title=Earliest modern female human infant burial found in Europe |url=https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/earliest-modern-female-human-infant-burial-found-europe |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211214103505/https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/earliest-modern-female-human-infant-burial-found-europe |url-status=dead |archive-date=December 14, 2021 |website=National Geographic |date=14 December 2021 |access-date=16 December 2021}}{{cite journal |last1=Hodgkins |first1=Jamie |title=An infant burial from Arma Veirana in northwestern Italy provides insights into funerary practices and female personhood in early Mesolithic Europe |journal=Scientific Reports |year=2021 |volume=11 |issue=1 |page=23735 |doi=10.1038/s41598-021-02804-z |pmid=34907203 |pmc=8671481 |bibcode=2021NatSR..1123735H }}
U5b2b1
U5b2b1a
U5b2b1a1
U5b2b1a2
U5b2b1b
U5b2b2
U5b2b3
U5b2b3a
U5b2b3a1
U5b2b3a1a
U5b2b3b
U5b2b4
U5b2b4a
U5b2b5
U5b2c between 7,000 and 18,000 years ago.Age: 12,651.1 ± 5,668.2; CI=95% (Behar et al., 2012) [http://haplogroup.org/mtdna/rsrs/l123456/l23456/l2346/l346/l34/l3/n/r/u/u5/u5b/u5b2/u5b2c/ haplogroup.org] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171228121713/http://haplogroup.org/mtdna/rsrs/l123456/l23456/l2346/l346/l34/l3/n/r/u/u5/u5b/u5b2/u5b2c/ |date=2017-12-28 }}
U5b2c1 less than 8,000 years ago.4,015.9 ± 3,898.7; CI=95% (Behar et al., 2012) [http://haplogroup.org/mtdna/rsrs/l123456/l23456/l2346/l346/l34/l3/n/r/u/u5/u5b/u5b2/u5b2c/u5b2c1/ haplogroup.org] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170906134814/http://haplogroup.org/mtdna/rsrs/l123456/l23456/l2346/l346/l34/l3/n/r/u/u5/u5b/u5b2/u5b2c/u5b2c1/ |date=2017-09-06 }} Found in a Phoenician individual from a Carthage tomb in Byrsa, Tunisia.Matisoo-Smith EA, Gosling AL, Boocock J, Kardailsky O, Kurumilian Y, Roudesli-Chebbi S, et al{{cite journal | vauthors = Matisoo-Smith EA, Gosling AL, Boocock J, Kardailsky O, Kurumilian Y, Roudesli-Chebbi S, Badre L, Morel JP, Sebaï LL, Zalloua PA | display-authors = 6 | title = A European Mitochondrial Haplotype Identified in Ancient Phoenician Remains from Carthage, North Africa | journal = PLOS ONE | volume = 11 | issue = 5 | pages = e0155046 | date = May 25, 2016 | pmid = 27224451 | pmc = 4880306 | doi = 10.1371/journal.pone.0155046 | bibcode = 2016PLoSO..1155046M | quote = The Young Man of Byrsa specimen dates from the late 6th century BCE, and his lineage is believed to represent early gene flow from Iberia to the Maghreb. | doi-access = free }}
U5b2c2 less than 3,000 years ago. Has the main relationship with the young phoenician man of Byrsa.FamilyTreeDna, [https://discover.familytreedna.com/mtdna/U5b2c2/notable U5b2c2: Conexiones Destacadas]
U5b2c2a
U5b2c2b
U5b2c3 less than 3,350 years ago. Has the main relationship with the young phoenician man of Byrsa.FamilyTreeDna, [https://discover.familytreedna.com/mtdna/U5b2c3/notable U5b2c3: Conexiones Destacadas] U5b2c3 is frequent in Aragon, Spain.FamilyTreeDna, [https://discover.familytreedna.com/mtdna/U5b2c3/frequency?view=table U5b2c3: País Frecuencia]
U5b2c3a less than 3,300 years ago.
U5b3 The subclade likely originates in the Italian peninsula; it is at its highest distribution in southwestern Europe, peaking amongst Sardinians (3.84%), followed by Balearic people (1.56%) and northern mainland Portuguese (1.09%).{{cite journal | vauthors = Pala M, Achilli A, Olivieri A, Hooshiar Kashani B, Perego UA, Sanna D, Metspalu E, Tambets K, Tamm E, Accetturo M, Carossa V, Lancioni H, Panara F, Zimmermann B, Huber G, Al-Zahery N, Brisighelli F, Woodward SR, Francalacci P, Parson W, Salas A, Behar DM, Villems R, Semino O, Bandelt HJ, Torroni A | display-authors = 6 | title = Mitochondrial haplogroup U5b3: a distant echo of the epipaleolithic in Italy and the legacy of the early Sardinians | journal = American Journal of Human Genetics | volume = 84 | issue = 6 | pages = 814–21 | date = June 2009 | pmid = 19500771 | pmc = 2694970 | doi = 10.1016/j.ajhg.2009.05.004 | url = http://www.moebiusonline.eu/fuorionda/doc/art_postglac2009.pdf | access-date = 2009-09-02 | archive-date = 2018-07-22 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180722043020/http://www.moebiusonline.eu/fuorionda/doc/art_postglac2009.pdf }} According to another study, U5b3 occurs at a frequency of 2.53% amongst Majorcans and 0.96% amongst Sephardi Chuetas.{{cite thesis | vauthors = Farragut SJ | title = GENETIC LEGACY OF SEPHARDIC JEWS: PATERNAL AND MATERNAL LINEAGES OF CHUETA POPULATION | journal = Universitat de les Illes Balears | date = June 2017 | url = https://dspace.uib.es/xmlui/bitstream/handle/11201/148454/Ferragut%20Simonet_Joana%20F_TESIS%20DEF.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y }}
U5b3a
U5b3a1
U5b3a1a
U5b3a1b
U5b3a2
U5b3b this subclade is likely similarly western Mediterranean/Ibero-Italic in origin but spread to parts of northwestern and middle Europe through Roman expansion, with samples found in Crete (Greece), Spain, Central Italy, England, the German Palatinate, and Bohemia.{{cite journal | vauthors = Pala M, Achilli A, Olivieri A, Hooshiar Kashani B, Perego UA, Sanna D, Metspalu E, Tambets K, Tamm E, Accetturo M, Carossa V, Lancioni H, Panara F, Zimmermann B, Huber G, Al-Zahery N, Brisighelli F, Woodward SR, Francalacci P, Parson W, Salas A, Behar DM, Villems R, Semino O, Bandelt HJ, Torroni A | display-authors = 6 | title = Mitochondrial haplogroup U5b3: a distant echo of the epipaleolithic in Italy and the legacy of the early Sardinians | journal = American Journal of Human Genetics | volume = 84 | issue = 6 | pages = 814–21 | date = June 2009 | pmid = 19500771 | pmc = 2694970 | doi = 10.1016/j.ajhg.2009.05.004 | url = https://www.cell.com/cms/10.1016/j.ajhg.2009.05.004/attachment/8dedc0e4-d109-4b58-80fa-1029e0834997/mmc1.pdf }}
U5b3b1
U5b3b2
U5b3c
U5b3d
U5b3e
U5b3f
U5b3g
U5b3h

=Haplogroup U6=

File:Frequency maps for mtDNA haplogroup U6 and several sub-groups.jpg

Haplogroup U6 was dated to between 31,000 and 43,000 years ago by Behar et al. (2012).

Basal U6* was found in a Romanian specimen of ancient DNA (Peștera Muierilor) dated to 35,000 years ago.{{cite journal | vauthors = Soficaru A, Dobos A, Trinkaus E | title = Early modern humans from the Pestera Muierii, Baia de Fier, Romania | journal = Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | volume = 103 | issue = 46 | pages = 17196–201 | date = November 2006 | pmid = 17085588 | pmc = 1859909 | doi = 10.1073/pnas.0608443103 | bibcode = 2006PNAS..10317196S | doi-access = free }} Hervella et al. (2016) take this find as evidence for Paleolithic back-migration of Homo sapiens from Eurasia into Africa. The discovery of basal U6* in ancient DNA contributed to setting back the estimated age of U6 to around 46,000 years ago.{{cite journal | vauthors = Hervella M, Svensson EM, Alberdi A, Günther T, Izagirre N, Munters AR, Alonso S, Ioana M, Ridiche F, Soficaru A, Jakobsson M, Netea MG, de-la-Rua C | display-authors = 6 | title = The mitogenome of a 35,000-year-old Homo sapiens from Europe supports a Palaeolithic back-migration to Africa | journal = Scientific Reports | volume = 6 | page = 25501 | date = May 2016 | pmid = 27195518 | pmc = 4872530 | doi = 10.1038/srep25501 | bibcode = 2016NatSR...625501H }}

"Individuals carrying haplogroup U possibly spread westward from Western Asia around 39–52 ky, reaching Europe as signaled by haplogroup U5, and North Africa signaled by haplogroup U6, which likely represents a genetic signal of a EUP return of Homo sapiens from Eurasia to North Africa. The time of the most recent common ancestor (TMRCA) for U6 was estimated to 35.3 (24.6–46.4) ky BP. [...] Our estimates of the haplogroup U6 TMRCA that incorporate ancient genomes (including PM1) set the formation of the U6 lineage back to 49.6 ky BP (95% HPD: 42–58 ky)"

Usually U6 genetic history is envisioned as a migration from southwest Asia through North Africa. This hypothesis is based on the general origin of haplogroup U sub-clades in Southwest Asia, which is also the center of the geographical distribution of U sub-clades: Europe, India, Central Asia, East Africa and North Africa. Two possible scenarios for the first U6 haplotype (bearing mutations 3348 and 16172) can be advanced: i) these mutations aroused in the founder region but did not leave any genetic legacy in current human populations there; ii) they originated probably somewhere in North Africa, after the arrival of the U6 founder haplotype. Within North Africa U6 is only significantly frequent at its western edge (as well as in South-western Europe). More importantly, all the most basal branches are virtually restricted to that region (U6b, U6c and U6d), what could indicate its western origin. Nevertheless, it cannot be excluded the major sub-clade U6a, which shows a richness of sub-clades in Northwest Africa although a few of derivative branches also include sequences from East African and the Middle Eastern populations (e.g. U6a2).

Haplogroup U6 is common (with a prevalence of around 10%) in Northwest Africa (with a maximum of 29% in an Algerian Mozabites{{cite journal | vauthors = Plaza S, Calafell F, Helal A, Bouzerna N, Lefranc G, Bertranpetit J, Comas D | title = Joining the pillars of Hercules: mtDNA sequences show multidirectional gene flow in the western Mediterranean | journal = Annals of Human Genetics | volume = 67 | issue = Pt 4 | pages = 312–28 | date = July 2003 | pmid = 12914566 | doi = 10.1046/j.1469-1809.2003.00039.x | s2cid = 11201992 | url = http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~genealogiadelamaza/PDF/Desde_los_pilares_de_Hercules.pdf }}) and the Canary Islands (18% on average with a peak frequency of 50.1% in La Gomera). It is also found in the Iberian peninsula, where it has the highest diversity (10 out of 19 sublineages are only found in this region and not in Africa),{{cite journal | vauthors = Maca-Meyer N, González AM, Pestano J, Flores C, Larruga JM, Cabrera VM | title = Mitochondrial DNA transit between West Asia and North Africa inferred from U6 phylogeography | journal = BMC Genetics | volume = 4 | issue = 1 | page = 15 | date = October 2003 | pmid = 14563219 | pmc = 270091 | doi = 10.1186/1471-2156-4-15 | doi-access = free }} Northeast Africa and occasionally in other locations. U6 is also found at low frequencies in the Chad Basin, including the rare Canarian branch. This suggests that the ancient U6 clade bearers may have inhabited or passed through the Chad Basin on their way westward toward the Canary Islands.{{cite journal | vauthors = Cerezo M, Černý V, Carracedo Á, Salas A | title = New insights into the Lake Chad Basin population structure revealed by high-throughput genotyping of mitochondrial DNA coding SNPs | journal = PLOS ONE | volume = 6 | issue = 4 | pages = e18682 | date = April 2011 | pmid = 21533064 | pmc = 3080428 | doi = 10.1371/journal.pone.0018682 | citeseerx = 10.1.1.291.8871 | bibcode = 2011PLoSO...618682C | doi-access = free }}

U6 is thought to have entered North Africa from the Near East around 30,000 years ago. It has been found among Iberomaurusian specimens dating from the Epipaleolithic at the Taforalt prehistoric site.{{cite journal | vauthors = Secher B, Fregel R, Larruga JM, Cabrera VM, Endicott P, Pestano JJ, González AM | display-authors = 6 | title = The history of the North African mitochondrial DNA haplogroup U6 gene flow into the African, Eurasian and American continents | journal = BMC Evolutionary Biology | volume = 14 | page = 109 | date = May 2014 | issue = 1 | pmid = 24885141 | pmc = 4062890 | doi = 10.1186/1471-2148-14-109 | doi-access = free | bibcode = 2014BMCEE..14..109S }} In spite of the highest diversity of Iberian U6, Maca-Meyer argues for a Near East origin of this clade based on the highest diversity of subclade U6a in that region, where it would have arrived from West Asia, with the Iberian incidence primarily representing migration from the Maghreb and not persistence of a European root population.{{why?|date=December 2018}}

According to Hernández et al. 2015 "the estimated entrance of the North African U6 lineages into Iberia at 10 ky correlates well with other L African clades, indicating that U6 and some L lineages moved together from Africa to Iberia in the Early Holocene."{{cite journal | vauthors = Hernández CL, Soares P, Dugoujon JM, Novelletto A, Rodríguez JN, Rito T, Oliveira M, Melhaoui M, Baali A, Pereira L, Calderón R | display-authors = 6 | title = Early Holocenic and Historic mtDNA African Signatures in the Iberian Peninsula: The Andalusian Region as a Paradigm | journal = PLOS ONE | volume = 10 | issue = 10 | pages = e0139784 | year = 2015 | pmid = 26509580 | pmc = 4624789 | doi = 10.1371/journal.pone.0139784 | bibcode = 2015PLoSO..1039784H | doi-access = free }}

U6 has two main subclades:

{{quote|Subgroup U6a reflects the first African expansion from the Maghreb returning to the east. Derivative clade U6a1 signals a posterior movement from East Africa back to the Maghreb and the Near East. This migration coincides with the probable Afroasiatic linguistic expansion. U6b and U6c clades, restricted to West Africa, had more localized expansions. U6b probably reached the Iberian Peninsula during the Capsian diffusion in North Africa. Two autochthonous derivatives of these clades (U6b1 and U6c1) indicate the arrival of North African settlers to the Canarian Archipelago in prehistoric times, most probably due to the Saharan desiccation. The absence of these Canarian lineages nowadays in Africa suggests important demographic movements in the western area of this Continent.|Maca-Meyer 2003}}

U6a'b'd
U6a subclade is the most widespread, stretching from the Canary Islands and Iberian Peninsula to the Horn of Africa and Near East. The subhaplogroup has its highest diversity in Northeast Africa. Ancient DNA analysis of Iberomaurusian skeletal remains at the Taforalt site in Morocco, which have been dated to the Later Stone Age between 15,100 and 13,900 ybp, observed the U6a subclade among most of the fossils (6/7; ~86%).{{cite journal | vauthors = van de Loosdrecht M, Bouzouggar A, Humphrey L, Posth C, Barton N, Aximu-Petri A, Nickel B, Nagel S, Talbi EH, El Hajraoui MA, Amzazi S, Hublin JJ, Pääbo S, Schiffels S, Meyer M, Haak W, Jeong C, Krause J | display-authors = 6 | title = Pleistocene North African genomes link Near Eastern and sub-Saharan African human populations | journal = Science | volume = 360 | issue = 6388 | pages = 548–552 | date = May 2018 | pmid = 29545507 | doi = 10.1126/science.aar8380 | doi-access = free | bibcode = 2018Sci...360..548V }} Fossils at the Early Neolithic site of Ifri n'Amr or Moussa in Morocco, which have been dated to around 5,000 BCE, have also been found to carry the U6a subhaplogroup. These ancient individuals bore an autochthonous Northwest African genomic component that peaks among modern Berbers, indicating that they were ancestral to populations in the area.{{cite journal | vauthors = Fregel R, Méndez FL, Bokbot Y, Martín-Socas D, Camalich-Massieu MD, Santana J, Morales J, Ávila-Arcos MC, Underhill PA, Shapiro B, Wojcik G, Rasmussen M, Soares AE, Kapp J, Sockell A, Rodríguez-Santos FJ, Mikdad A, Trujillo-Mederos A, Bustamante CD | display-authors = 6 | title = Ancient genomes from North Africa evidence prehistoric migrations to the Maghreb from both the Levant and Europe | journal = Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | volume = 115 | issue = 26 | pages = 6774–6779 | date = June 2018 | pmid = 29895688 | pmc = 6042094 | doi = 10.1073/pnas.1800851115 | bibcode = 2018PNAS..115.6774F | doi-access = free }} U6a's estimated age is 24-27,500 BP. It has six major subclades:
U6a1 similar distribution to U6a parent clade; found particularly among Copts (27.6%) and Beja (10.4%).{{cite thesis|last1=Mohamed|first1=Hisham Yousif Hassan|name-list-style=vanc|degree=Ph.D.|title=Genetic Patterns of Y-chromosome and Mitochondrial DNA Variation, with Implications to the Peopling of the Sudan|url=http://khartoumspace.uofk.edu/bitstream/handle/123456789/6376/Genetic%20Patterns%20of%20Y-chromosome%20and%20Mitochondrial.pdf?sequence=1|publisher=University of Khartoum|access-date=17 April 2016|archive-date=10 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201110063820/http://khartoumspace.uofk.edu/handle/123456789/6376/restricted-resource?bitstreamId=11199|url-status=dead}} Estimated age: 15-20,000 BP.
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U6b shows a more patched and western distribution. In the Iberian peninsula, U6b is more frequent in the north, whereas U6a is more common in the south. It has also been found at low frequencies in Morocco, Algeria, Senegal and Nigeria. Estimated age: 8,500-24,500 BP. It has one subclade:
U6b1 found only in the Canary Islands and in the Iberian peninsula. Estimated age: c. 6000 BP.
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U6d most closely related to U6b. Localized in the Maghreb, with a presence in Europe. It arose between 10,000 and 13,000 BP.
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U6a, U6b and U6d share a common basal mutation (16219) that is not present in U6c, whereas U6c has 11 unique mutations. U6b and U6d share a mutation (16311) not shared by U6a, which has three unique mutations.

= U2'3'4'7'8'9 =

Subclades U2, U3, U4, U7, U8 and U9 are now thought to be monophyletic, their common ancestor

"U2'3'4'7'8'9" defined by mutation A1811G, arising between about 42,000 and 48,000 years ago (Behar et al., 2012).

Within U2'3'4'7'8'9, U4 and U9 may be monophyletic, as "U4'9" (mutations T195C!, G499A, T5999C) arising between 31,000 and 43,000 years ago (Behar et al., 2012).

U2'3'4'7'8'9 was found in the remains of two 32,000 years old Ancient North Siberians (ANS) from the Yana RHS Site on river Yana.{{cite journal |doi=10.1038/s41586-019-1279-z |biorxiv=10.1101/448829|title=The population history of northeastern Siberia since the Pleistocene|year=2019|last1=Sikora|first1=Martin|last2=Pitulko|first2=Vladimir V.|last3=Sousa|first3=Vitor C.|last4=Allentoft|first4=Morten E.|last5=Vinner|first5=Lasse|last6=Rasmussen|first6=Simon|last7=Margaryan|first7=Ashot|last8=De Barros Damgaard|first8=Peter|last9=de la Fuente|first9=Constanza|last10=Renaud|first10=Gabriel|last11=Yang|first11=Melinda A.|last12=Fu|first12=Qiaomei|last13=Dupanloup|first13=Isabelle|last14=Giampoudakis|first14=Konstantinos|last15=Nogués-Bravo|first15=David|last16=Rahbek|first16=Carsten|last17=Kroonen|first17=Guus|last18=Peyrot|first18=Michaël|last19=McColl|first19=Hugh|last20=Vasilyev|first20=Sergey V.|last21=Veselovskaya|first21=Elizaveta|last22=Gerasimova|first22=Margarita|last23=Pavlova|first23=Elena Y.|last24=Chasnyk|first24=Vyacheslav G.|last25=Nikolskiy|first25=Pavel A.|last26=Gromov|first26=Andrei V.|last27=Khartanovich|first27=Valeriy I.|last28=Moiseyev|first28=Vyacheslav|last29=Grebenyuk|first29=Pavel S.|last30=Fedorchenko|first30=Alexander Yu.|journal=Nature|volume=570|issue=7760|pages=182–188|pmid=31168093|bibcode=2019Natur.570..182S|s2cid=174809069|display-authors=1|url=https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/448829v1.full.pdf}}

==Haplogroup U2==

Haplogroup U2 is most common in South Asia{{cite journal | vauthors = Metspalu M, Kivisild T, Metspalu E, Parik J, Hudjashov G, Kaldma K, Serk P, Karmin M, Behar DM, Gilbert MT, Endicott P, Mastana S, Papiha SS, Skorecki K, Torroni A, Villems R | display-authors = 6 | title = Most of the extant mtDNA boundaries in south and southwest Asia were likely shaped during the initial settlement of Eurasia by anatomically modern humans | journal = BMC Genetics | volume = 5 | page = 26 | date = August 2004 | pmid = 15339343 | pmc = 516768 | doi = 10.1186/1471-2156-5-26 | doi-access = free }} but is also found in low frequency in Central and West Asia, as well as in Europe as U2e (the European variety of U2 is named U2e).{{cite journal | vauthors = Maji S, Krithika S, Vasulu TS | title = Distribution of mitochondrial DNA macrohaplogroup N in India with special reference to haplogroup R and its sub-haplogroup U. | journal = International Journal of Human Genetics | date = March 2008 | volume = 8 | issue = 1–2 | pages = 85–96 | url = http://www.krepublishers.com/02-Journals/IJHG/IJHG-08-0-000-000-2008-Web/IJHG-08-1-2-001-256-2007-Abst-PDF/IJHG-08-1-2-085-08-336-Maji-S/IJHG-08-1&2-085-08-336-Maji-S-Tt.pdf | doi = 10.1080/09723757.2008.11886022 | s2cid = 14231815 }} The overall frequency of U2 in South Asia is largely accounted for by the group U2i in India whereas haplogroup U2e, common in Europe, is rare; given that these lineages diverged approximately 50,000-years-ago, these data have been interpreted as indicating very low maternal-line gene-flow between South Asia and Europe throughout this period. Approximately one half of the U mtDNAs in India belong to the Indian-specific branches of haplogroup U2 (U2i: U2a, U2b and U2c). Haplogroup U2b2 has been found in the remains of a 4500 year old female excavated from the Rakhigarhi site of Indus Valley civilisation, in present day state of Haryana, India.{{cite journal |last1=Shinde |first1=V |last2=Narasimhan |first2=VM |last3=Rohland |first3=N |last4=Mallick |first4=S |last5=Mah |first5=M |last6=Lipson |first6=M |last7=Nakatsuka |first7=N |last8=Adamski |first8=N |last9=Broomandkhoshbacht |first9=N |last10=Ferry |first10=M |last11=Lawson |first11=AM |last12=Michel |first12=M |last13=Oppenheimer |first13=J |last14=Stewardson |first14=K |last15=Jadhav |first15=N |last16=Kim |first16=YJ |last17=Chatterjee |first17=M |last18=Munshi |first18=A |last19=Panyam |first19=A |last20=Waghmare |first20=P |last21=Yadav |first21=Y |last22=Patel |first22=H |last23=Kaushik |first23=A |last24=Thangaraj |first24=K |last25=Meyer |first25=M |last26=Patterson |first26=N |last27=Rai |first27=N |last28=Reich |first28=D |title=An Ancient Harappan Genome Lacks Ancestry from Steppe Pastoralists or Iranian Farmers. |journal=Cell |date=17 October 2019 |volume=179 |issue=3 |pages=729–735.e10 |doi=10.1016/j.cell.2019.08.048 |pmid=31495572 |url=https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/vagheesh/files/piis0092867419309675.pdf|pmc=6800651 }} While U2 is typically found in India, it is also present in the Nogais, descendants of various Mongolic and Turkic tribes, who formed the Nogai Horde.{{cite journal | vauthors = Bermisheva MA, Kutuev IA, Korshunova TI, Dubova NA, Villems R, Khusnutdinova EK | title = [Phylogeografic analysis of mitochondrial DNA Nogays: the high level of mixture of maternal lineages from Eastern and Western Eurasia] | journal = Molekuliarnaia Biologiia | volume = 38 | issue = 4 | pages = 617–24 | year = 2004 | pmid = 15456133 }} Both U2 and U4 are found in the Ket and Nganasan peoples, the indigenous inhabitants of the Yenisei River basin and the Taymyr Peninsula.{{cite journal | vauthors = Derbeneva OA, Starikovskaia EB, Volod'ko NV, Wallace DC, Sukernik RI | title = [Mitochondrial DNA variation in Kets and Nganasans and the early peoples of Northern Eurasia] | journal = Genetika | volume = 38 | issue = 11 | pages = 1554–60 | date = November 2002 | pmid = 12500682 }}

The U2 subclades are: U2a,{{cite web | url = http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ncscotts/mtDNA/GenBank%20Mutation%20Lists/hg%20U%20Phylogeny/U2a.pdf | title = Phylogeny of mt-hg U2a | vauthors = Scott R | year = 2009 }} U2b,{{cite web | url = http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ncscotts/mtDNA/GenBank%20Mutation%20Lists/hg%20U%20Phylogeny/U2b.pdf | title = Phylogeny of mt-hg U2b | vauthors = Scott R | year = 2010 }} U2c,{{cite web | url = http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ncscotts/mtDNA/GenBank%20Mutation%20Lists/hg%20U%20Phylogeny/U2c.pdf | title = Phylogeny of mt-hg U2c | vauthors = Scott R | year = 2009 }} U2d,{{cite web | url = http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ncscotts/mtDNA/GenBank%20Mutation%20Lists/hg%20U%20Phylogeny/U2d.pdf | title = Phylogeny of mt-hg U2d | vauthors = Scott R | year = 2009 }} and U2e.{{cite web | url = http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ncscotts/mtDNA/GenBank%20Mutation%20Lists/hg%20U%20Phylogeny/U2e.pdf | title = Phylogeny of mt-hg U2e | vauthors = Scott R | year = 2010 }} With the India-specific subclades U2a, U2b, and U2c collectively referred to as U2i, the Eurasian haplogroup U2d appears to be a sister clade with the Indian haplogroup U2c,{{cite journal | vauthors = Malyarchuk B, Derenko M, Perkova M, Vanecek T | title = Mitochondrial haplogroup U2d phylogeny and distribution | journal = Human Biology | volume = 80 | issue = 5 | pages = 565–71 | date = October 2008 | pmid = 19341323 | doi = 10.3378/1534-6617-80.5.565 | s2cid = 9447306 }} while U2e is considered a European-specific subclade but also found in South India.

Haplogroup U2 has been found in the remains of a 37,000{{cite journal|author=A. Seguin-Orlando |display-authors=etal|title=Genomic structure in Europeans dating back at least 36,200 years|journal=Science|volume=346|issue=6213|pages=1113–1118|date=6 November 2014|doi=10.1126/science.aaa0114|pmid=25378462|bibcode=2014Sci...346.1113S|s2cid=206632421|url=https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/246496}} and 30,000-year-old hunter-gatherer from the Kostyonki, Voronezh Oblast in Central-South European Russia.,{{cite web | url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8435317.stm | work = BBC News | title = DNA analysed from early European | date = 2010 }} in 4800 to 4000-year-old human remains from a Beaker culture site of the Late Neolithic in Kromsdorf Germany,{{cite journal | vauthors = Lee EJ, Makarewicz C, Renneberg R, Harder M, Krause-Kyora B, Müller S, Ostritz S, Fehren-Schmitz L, Schreiber S, Müller J, von Wurmb-Schwark N, Nebel A | title = Emerging genetic patterns of the European Neolithic: perspectives from a late Neolithic Bell Beaker burial site in Germany | journal = American Journal of Physical Anthropology | volume = 148 | issue = 4 | pages = 571–9 | date = August 2012 | pmid = 22552938 | doi = 10.1002/ajpa.22074 | doi-access = free }} and in 2,000-year-old human remains from Bøgebjerggård in Southern Denmark. However, haplogroup U2 is rare in present-day Scandinavians.{{cite journal | vauthors = Melchior L, Gilbert MT, Kivisild T, Lynnerup N, Dissing J | title = Rare mtDNA haplogroups and genetic differences in rich and poor Danish Iron-Age villages | journal = American Journal of Physical Anthropology | volume = 135 | issue = 2 | pages = 206–15 | date = February 2008 | pmid = 18046774 | doi = 10.1002/ajpa.20721 }} The remains of a 2,000-year-old West Eurasian male of haplogroup U2e1 was found in the Xiongnu Cemetery of Northeast Mongolia.{{cite journal | vauthors = Kim K, Brenner CH, Mair VH, Lee KH, Kim JH, Gelegdorj E, Batbold N, Song YC, Yun HW, Chang EJ, Lkhagvasuren G, Bazarragchaa M, Park AJ, Lim I, Hong YP, Kim W, Chung SI, Kim DJ, Chung YH, Kim SS, Lee WB, Kim KY | display-authors = 6 | title = A western Eurasian male is found in 2000-year-old elite Xiongnu cemetery in Northeast Mongolia | journal = American Journal of Physical Anthropology | volume = 142 | issue = 3 | pages = 429–40 | date = July 2010 | pmid = 20091844 | doi = 10.1002/ajpa.21242 | url = http://volgagermanbrit.us/documents/Kim_et_al.pdf }}

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==Haplogroup U3==

Haplogroup U3 falls into two subclades:: U3a{{cite web | url = http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ncscotts/mtDNA/GenBank%20Mutation%20Lists/hg%20U%20Phylogeny/U3.pdf | title = Phylogeny of mt-hg U3 | vauthors = Scott R | date = 2010 }} and U3b.

Coalescence age for U3a is estimated as 18,000 to 26,000-years-ago while the coalescence age for U3b is estimated as 18,000 to 24,000-years-ago. U3a is found in Europe, the Near East, the Caucasus and North Africa. The almost-entirely European distributed subclade, U3a1, dated at 4000 to 7000-years-ago, suggests a relatively recent (late Holocene or later) expansion of these lineages in Europe. There is a minor U3c subclade (derived from U3a), represented by a single Azeri mtDNA from the Caucasus. U3b is widespread across the Middle East and the Caucasus, and it is found especially in Iran, Iraq and Yemen, with a minor European subclade, U3b1b, dated at 2000 to 3000-years-ago.{{cite journal | vauthors = Derenko M, Malyarchuk B, Bahmanimehr A, Denisova G, Perkova M, Farjadian S, Yepiskoposyan L | display-authors = 6 | title = Complete mitochondrial DNA diversity in Iranians | journal = PLOS ONE | volume = 8 | issue = 11 | pages = e80673 | year = 2013 | pmid = 24244704 | pmc = 3828245 | doi = 10.1371/journal.pone.0080673 | bibcode = 2013PLoSO...880673D | doi-access = free }} Haplogroup U3 is defined by the HVR1 transition A16343G. It is found at low levels throughout Europe (about 1% of the population), the Near East (about 2.5% of the population), and Central Asia (about 1% of the population). U3 is present in the Svan population from the Svaneti region (about 4.2% of the population) and among Lithuanian Roma, Polish Roma, and Spanish Roma populations (36-56%){{cite journal | vauthors = Richards M, Macaulay V, Hickey E, Vega E, Sykes B, Guida V, Rengo C, Sellitto D, Cruciani F, Kivisild T, Villems R, Thomas M, Rychkov S, Rychkov O, Rychkov Y, Gölge M, Dimitrov D, Hill E, Bradley D, Romano V, Calì F, Vona G, Demaine A, Papiha S, Triantaphyllidis C, Stefanescu G, Hatina J, Belledi M, Di Rienzo A, Novelletto A, Oppenheim A, Nørby S, Al-Zaheri N, Santachiara-Benerecetti S, Scozari R, Torroni A, Bandelt HJ | display-authors = 6 | title = Tracing European founder lineages in the Near Eastern mtDNA pool | journal = American Journal of Human Genetics | volume = 67 | issue = 5 | pages = 1251–76 | date = November 2000 | pmid = 11032788 | pmc = 1288566 | doi = 10.1016/S0002-9297(07)62954-1 | url = http://evolutsioon.ut.ee/publications/Richards2000.pdf | access-date = 2007-03-19 | archive-date = 2009-03-04 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090304095854/http://evolutsioon.ut.ee/publications/Richards2000.pdf | url-status = dead }}{{cite journal | vauthors = Quintana-Murci L, Chaix R, Wells RS, Behar DM, Sayar H, Scozzari R, Rengo C, Al-Zahery N, Semino O, Santachiara-Benerecetti AS, Coppa A, Ayub Q, Mohyuddin A, Tyler-Smith C, Qasim Mehdi S, Torroni A, McElreavey K | display-authors = 6 | title = Where west meets east: the complex mtDNA landscape of the southwest and Central Asian corridor | journal = American Journal of Human Genetics | volume = 74 | issue = 5 | pages = 827–45 | date = May 2004 | pmid = 15077202 | pmc = 1181978 | doi = 10.1086/383236 }}{{cite journal | vauthors = Malyarchuk BA, Grzybowski T, Derenko MV, Czarny J, Miścicka-Sliwka D | title = Mitochondrial DNA diversity in the Polish Roma | journal = Annals of Human Genetics | volume = 70 | issue = Pt 2 | pages = 195–206 | date = March 2006 | pmid = 16626330 | doi = 10.1111/j.1529-8817.2005.00222.x | s2cid = 662278 }}{{cite journal | vauthors = Mendizabal I, Valente C, Gusmão A, Alves C, Gomes V, Goios A, Parson W, Calafell F, Alvarez L, Amorim A, Gusmão L, Comas D, Prata MJ | display-authors = 6 | title = Reconstructing the Indian origin and dispersal of the European Roma: a maternal genetic perspective | journal = PLOS ONE | volume = 6 | issue = 1 | pages = e15988 | date = January 2011 | pmid = 21264345 | pmc = 3018485 | doi = 10.1371/journal.pone.0015988 | bibcode = 2011PLoSO...615988M | doi-access = free }}

The U3 clade is also found among Mozabite Berbers (10.59%), as well as Egyptians in the El-Hayez (2.9%){{cite journal | vauthors = Kujanová M, Pereira L, Fernandes V, Pereira JB, Cerný V | title = Near eastern neolithic genetic input in a small oasis of the Egyptian Western Desert | journal = American Journal of Physical Anthropology | volume = 140 | issue = 2 | pages = 336–46 | date = October 2009 | pmid = 19425100 | doi = 10.1002/ajpa.21078 }} and Gurna oases (2.9%),{{cite journal | vauthors = Stevanovitch A, Gilles A, Bouzaid E, Kefi R, Paris F, Gayraud RP, Spadoni JL, El-Chenawi F, Béraud-Colomb E | display-authors = 6 | title = Mitochondrial DNA sequence diversity in a sedentary population from Egypt | journal = Annals of Human Genetics | volume = 68 | issue = Pt 1 | pages = 23–39 | date = January 2004 | pmid = 14748828 | doi = 10.1046/j.1529-8817.2003.00057.x | s2cid = 44901197 | ref = {{harvid|Stevanovitch|2004}} }} and Algerians in Oran (1.08%-1.25%). The rare U3a subclade occurs among the Tuareg inhabiting Niger (3.23%){{cite journal | vauthors = Pereira L, Cerný V, Cerezo M, Silva NM, Hájek M, Vasíková A, Kujanová M, Brdicka R, Salas A | display-authors = 6 | title = Linking the sub-Saharan and West Eurasian gene pools: maternal and paternal heritage of the Tuareg nomads from the African Sahel | journal = European Journal of Human Genetics | volume = 18 | issue = 8 | pages = 915–23 | date = August 2010 | pmid = 20234393 | pmc = 2987384 | doi = 10.1038/ejhg.2010.21 }} and among Somalis (1.6%).{{cite web |title=Forensic and phylogeographic characterisation of mtDNA lineages from Somalia |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/224820101}}

Haplogroup U3 has been found in some of the 6400-year-old remains (U3a) discovered in the caves at Wadi El-Makkukh near Jericho associated with the Chalcolithic period.{{cite journal | vauthors = Salamon M, Tzur S, Arensburg B, Zias J, Nagar Y, Weiner S, Boaretto E | title = Ancient mtdna sequences and radiocarbon dating of human bones from the chalcolithic caves of wadi el-makkukh. | journal = Mediterranean Archaeology and Archaeometry | date = January 2010 | volume = 10 | issue = 2 | pages = 1–4 | bibcode = 2010MAA....10....1S | url = http://www.rhodes.aegean.gr/maa_journal/1_Weiner.pdf |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160303234334/http://www.rhodes.aegean.gr/maa_journal/1_Weiner.pdf |archive-date=2016-03-03 }} Haplogroup U3 was already present in the West Eurasian gene pool around 6,000-years-ago and probably also its subclade U3a as well.

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==Haplogroup U4'9==

===Haplogroup U4===

Haplogroup U4 has its origin between 21,000 and 14,000 years ago. Its distribution is associated

with the population bottleneck due to the Last Glacial Maximum.

U4 has been found in ancient DNA,{{cite journal | vauthors = Budja M | title = Neolithic pots and potters in Europe: the end of 'demic diffusion' migratory model | journal = Documenta Praehistorica | date = December 2013 | volume = 40 | pages = 38–56 | doi = 10.4312/dp.40.5 | doi-access = free }} and it is relatively rare in modern populations, although it is found in substantial ratios in certain indigenous populations of Northern Asia and Northern Europe, being associated with the remnants of ancient European hunting-gatherers preserved in the indigenous populations of Siberia.{{cite journal | vauthors = Der Sarkissian C, Balanovsky O, Brandt G, Khartanovich V, Buzhilova A, Koshel S, Zaporozhchenko V, Gronenborn D, Moiseyev V, Kolpakov E, Shumkin V, Alt KW, Balanovska E, Cooper A, Haak W | display-authors = 6 | title = Ancient DNA reveals prehistoric gene-flow from siberia in the complex human population history of North East Europe | journal = PLOS Genetics | volume = 9 | issue = 2 | pages = e1003296 | year = 2013 | pmid = 23459685 | pmc = 3573127 | doi = 10.1371/journal.pgen.1003296 | doi-access = free }}{{cite journal | vauthors = Haak W, Balanovsky O, Sanchez JJ, Koshel S, Zaporozhchenko V, Adler CJ, Der Sarkissian CS, Brandt G, Schwarz C, Nicklisch N, Dresely V, Fritsch B, Balanovska E, Villems R, Meller H, Alt KW, Cooper A | display-authors = 6 | title = Ancient DNA from European early neolithic farmers reveals their near eastern affinities | journal = PLOS Biology | volume = 8 | issue = 11 | pages = e1000536 | date = November 2010 | pmid = 21085689 | pmc = 2976717 | doi = 10.1371/journal.pbio.1000536 | doi-access = free }}{{cite journal | vauthors = Derbeneva OA, Starikovskaya EB, Wallace DC, Sukernik RI | title = Traces of early Eurasians in the Mansi of northwest Siberia revealed by mitochondrial DNA analysis | journal = American Journal of Human Genetics | volume = 70 | issue = 4 | pages = 1009–14 | date = April 2002 | pmid = 11845409 | pmc = 379094 | doi = 10.1086/339524 }} U4 is found in the endangered Nganasan people of the Taymyr Peninsula,{{cite journal | vauthors = Volodko NV, Starikovskaya EB, Mazunin IO, Eltsov NP, Naidenko PV, Wallace DC, Sukernik RI | display-authors = 6 | title = Mitochondrial genome diversity in arctic Siberians, with particular reference to the evolutionary history of Beringia and Pleistocenic peopling of the Americas | journal = American Journal of Human Genetics | volume = 82 | issue = 5 | pages = 1084–100 | date = May 2008 | pmid = 18452887 | pmc = 2427195 | doi = 10.1016/j.ajhg.2008.03.019 }} in the Mansi (16.3%), and in the Ket people (28.9%) of the Yenisei River. It is found in Europe with highest concentrations in Scandinavia and the Baltic states.{{cite web | url = http://www.oxfordancestors.com/content/view/35/55 | work = Maternal Ancestry | title = The clan of Ulrike | publisher = Oxford Ancestors | year = 2013 | access-date = 2013-02-07 | url-status = usurped | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170715205636/http://www.oxfordancestors.com/content/view/35/55 | archive-date = 2017-07-15 }} and is found in the Sami population of the Scandinavian peninsula (although, U5b has a higher representation).{{cite web | url = http://www.oxfordancestors.com/content/view/35/55 | work = Oxford Ancestors Ltd. | title = Maternal Ancestry | access-date = 2013-02-07 | url-status = usurped | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170715205636/http://www.oxfordancestors.com/content/view/35/55 | archive-date = 2017-07-15 }}

U4 is also preserved in the Kalash people (current population size 3,700){{cite web | url = http://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2012/02/29/city/islamabad/safeguarding-kalash-heritage/ | work = Pakistan Today | title = Safeguarding Kalash heritage | vauthors = Bashir M | year = 2012 }} a unique tribe among the Indo-Aryan peoples of Pakistan where U4 (subclade U4a1{{cite web | url = http://www.ianlogan.co.uk/sequences_by_group/u4a1_genbank_sequences.htm | title = U4a1 Genbank Sequences | first = Ian | last = Logan | name-list-style = vanc | year = 2014 }}) attains its highest frequency of 34%.{{cite web | url = http://u4haplogroup.blogspot.com/2009/08/modern-u4-carriers-kalash.html | work = A blog dedicated to the U4 Haplogroup | title = The Kalash }}

The U4 subclades are: U4a,{{cite web | url = http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ncscotts/mtDNA/GenBank%20Mutation%20Lists/hg%20U%20Phylogeny/U4a.pdf | title = Phylogeny of mt-hg U4a | vauthors = Scott R | year = 2011}} U4b,{{cite web | url = http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ncscotts/mtDNA/GenBank%20Mutation%20Lists/hg%20U%20Phylogeny/U4b.pdf | title = Phylogeny of mt-hg U4b | vauthors = Scott R | year = 2011}} U4c,{{cite web | url = http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ncscotts/mtDNA/GenBank%20Mutation%20Lists/hg%20U%20Phylogeny/U4c.pdf | title = Phylogeny of mt-hg U4c | vauthors = Scott R | year = 2011}} and U4d.{{cite web | url = http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ncscotts/mtDNA/GenBank%20Mutation%20Lists/hg%20U%20Phylogeny/U4d.pdf | title = Phylogeny of mt-hg U4d | vauthors = Scott R | year = 2010}}

Haplogroup U4 is associated with ancient European hunter-gatherers and has been found in 7,200 to 6,000-year-old remains of the Pitted Ware culture in Gotland Sweden and in 4,400 to 3,800-year-old remains from the Damsbo site of the Danish Beaker culture.{{cite web | url = http://www.eupedia.com/europe/ancient_european_dna.shtml | work = Eupedia | title = Prehistoric European DNA - mtDNA & Y-DNA Haplogroup Frequencies by Period }}{{cite journal | vauthors = Melchior L, Lynnerup N, Siegismund HR, Kivisild T, Dissing J | title = Genetic diversity among ancient Nordic populations | journal = PLOS ONE | volume = 5 | issue = 7 | pages = e11898 | date = July 2010 | pmid = 20689597 | pmc = 2912848 | doi = 10.1371/journal.pone.0011898 | bibcode = 2010PLoSO...511898M | doi-access = free }} Remains identified as subclade U4a2 are associated with the Corded Ware culture, which flourished 5200 to 4300 years ago in Eastern and Central Europe and encompassed most of continental northern Europe from the Volga River in the east to the Rhine in the west.{{cite journal | vauthors = Malyarchuk B, Grzybowski T, Derenko M, Perkova M, Vanecek T, Lazur J, Gomolcak P, Tsybovsky I | title = Mitochondrial DNA phylogeny in Eastern and Western Slavs | journal = Molecular Biology and Evolution | volume = 25 | issue = 8 | pages = 1651–8 | date = August 2008 | pmid = 18477584 | doi = 10.1093/molbev/msn114 | doi-access = free }} Mitochondrial DNA recovered from 3,500 to 3,300-year-old remains at the Bredtoftegård site in Denmark associated with the Nordic Bronze Age include haplogroup U4 with 16179T in its HVR1 indicative of subclade U4c1.{{cite web | first = Jean | last = Manco | name-list-style = vanc | url = http://www.ancestraljourneys.org/ancientdna.shtml | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170122094550/http://www.ancestraljourneys.org/ancientdna.shtml | archive-date=2017-01-22 | work = Ancestral Journeys | title = Ancient Western Eurasian DNA of the Copper and Bronze Ages | year = 2009 }}{{cite web | url = http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ncscotts/mtDNA/GenBank%20Mutation%20Lists/hg%20U/hg_U_mutation_list.pdf | title = A Comprehensive hg U Mutation List | vauthors = Scott R | date = 2010 }} 2 out of 9 1700-year-old remains in the extreme southwest of Ivanovo Region were U4c1.{{Cite web |title=Slavicization of the Uralic speakers Volga-Oka interfluve. Languages & genes from Iron Age to Slavs | date=22 January 2023 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRYJX2nKgk4 |access-date=2023-08-31 |via=YouTube}}

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===Haplogroup U9===

Haplogroup U9 is a rare clade in mtDNA phylogeny, characterized only recently in a few populations of Pakistan (Quintana-Murci et al. 2004). Its presence in Ethiopia and Yemen, together with some Indian-specific M lineages in the Yemeni sample, points to gene flow along the coast of the Arabian Sea. Haplogroups U9 and U4 share two common mutations at the root of their phylogeny. It is interesting that, in Pakistan, U9 occurs frequently only among the so-called Makrani population. In this particular population, lineages specific to parts of Eastern Africa occur as frequently as 39%, which suggests that U9 lineages in Pakistan may have an African origin (Quintana-Murci et al. 2004). Regardless of which coast of the Arabian Sea may have been the origin of U9, its Ethiopian–southern Arabian–Indus Basin distribution hints that the subclade's diversification from U4 may have occurred in regions far away from the current area of the highest diversity and frequency of haplogroup U4—East Europe and western Siberia.{{cite journal | vauthors = Kivisild T, Reidla M, Metspalu E, Rosa A, Brehm A, Pennarun E, Parik J, Geberhiwot T, Usanga E, Villems R | display-authors = 6 | title = Ethiopian mitochondrial DNA heritage: tracking gene flow across and around the gate of tears | journal = American Journal of Human Genetics | volume = 75 | issue = 5 | pages = 752–70 | date = November 2004 | pmid = 15457403 | pmc = 1182106 | doi = 10.1086/425161 }}

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==Haplogroup U7==

Haplogroup U7 is considered a West Eurasian–specific mtDNA haplogroup, believed to have originated in the Black Sea area approximately 30,000 years ago.{{cite web | url = http://www.khm.uio.no/tema/utstillingsarkiv/levd-liv/plakater.pdf | title = The Oseberg women and the Gokstad man retain their genetic secrets | work = Kulturhistorisk Museum | publisher = University of Oslo }}{{Dead link|date=April 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}{{cite web | url = https://www.familytreedna.com/public/mtDNA%20U7/ | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140602063527/https://www.familytreedna.com/public/mtDNA%20U7/ | archive-date = 2 June 2014 | title = U7 Haplogroup Mitochondrial DNA Project }} In modern populations, U7 occurs at low frequency in the Caucasus, the western Siberian tribes,{{cite journal | vauthors = Rudbeck L, Gilbert MT, Willerslev E, Hansen AJ, Lynnerup N, Christensen T, Dissing J | title = mtDNA analysis of human remains from an early Danish Christian cemetery | journal = American Journal of Physical Anthropology | volume = 128 | issue = 2 | pages = 424–9 | date = October 2005 | pmid = 15838837 | doi = 10.1002/ajpa.20294 }} West Asia (about 4% in the Near East, while peaking with 10% in Iranians), South Asia (about 12% in Gujarat, the westernmost state of India, while for the whole of India its frequency stays around 2%, and 5% in Pakistan), and the Vedda people of Sri Lanka where it reaches it highest frequency of 13.33% (subclade U7a).{{cite journal | vauthors = Ranaweera L, Kaewsutthi S, Win Tun A, Boonyarit H, Poolsuwan S, Lertrit P | title = Mitochondrial DNA history of Sri Lankan ethnic people: their relations within the island and with the Indian subcontinental populations | journal = Journal of Human Genetics | volume = 59 | issue = 1 | pages = 28–36 | date = January 2014 | pmid = 24196378 | doi = 10.1038/jhg.2013.112 | s2cid = 41185629 | doi-access = free }} One third of the West Eurasian-specific mtDNAs found in India are in haplogroups U7, R2 and W. It is speculated that large-scale immigration carried these mitochondrial haplogroups into India.

The U7 subclades are U7a (with deep-subclades U7a1, U7a2, U7a2a, U7a2b){{cite web | url = http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ncscotts/mtDNA/GenBank%20Mutation%20Lists/hg%20U%20Phylogeny/U7.pdf | title = Phylogeny of mt-hg U7 | vauthors = Scott R | date = 2010 }} and U7b.

Genetic analysis of individuals associated with the Late Hallstatt culture from Baden-Württemberg Germany considered to be examples of Iron Age "princely burials" included haplogroup U7.{{cite journal | vauthors = Lee EJ, Steffen C, Harder M, Krause-Kyora B, Von Wurmb-Schwark N, Nebel A | title = An ancient DNA perspective on the Iron Age "princely burials" from Baden-Wiirttemberg, Germany. | journal = American Journal of Physical Anthropology | date = January 2012 | volume = 147 | page = 190 | doi = 10.1002/ajpa.22033 | doi-access = free }} Haplogroup U7 was reported to have been found in 1200-year-old human remains (dating to around 834), in a woman believed to be from a royal clan who was buried with the Viking Oseberg Ship in Norway.{{cite web |last=Berglund |first=Nina | name-list-style = vanc |url=http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1709020.ece |title=Viking woman had roots near the Black Sea -| work = Aftenposten - News in English |publisher=Aftenposten.no | date = 26 March 2007 | access-date=11 April 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100826084713/http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1709020.ece |archive-date=2010-08-26 }} Haplogroup U7 was found in 1000-year-old human remains (dating to around AD 1000-1250) in a Christian cemetery is Kongemarken Denmark. However, U7 is rare among present-day ethnic Scandinavians.

The U7a subclade is especially common among Saudis, constituting around 30% of maternal lineages in the Eastern Province.{{cite web | vauthors = Farrell JJ, Al-Ali AK, Farrer LA, Al-Nafaie AN, Al-Rubaish AM, Melista E, Naserullah Z, Alsuliman A, Sebastiani P, Steinberg MH, Baldwin CT | display-authors = 6 | title = The Saudi Arabian Genome Reveals a Two Step Out-of-Africa Migration | url = http://www.ashg.org/2013meeting/abstracts/fulltext/f130122833.htm | publisher = American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) | access-date = 2016-05-12 | archive-date = 2016-09-13 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160913000054/http://www.ashg.org/2013meeting/abstracts/fulltext/f130122833.htm }}

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==Haplogroup U8==

Haplogroup U8a: The Basques have the most ancestral phylogeny in Europe for the mitochondrial haplogroup U8a. This is a rare subgroup of U8, placing the Basque origin of this lineage in the Upper Palaeolithic. The lack of U8a lineages in Africa suggests that their ancestors may have originated from West Asia.

Haplogroup U8b: This clade has been found in Italy and Jordan.

Haplogroup U8b'K: This clade may be synonymous with Haplogroup K and Haplogroup UK.{{Citation needed|date=February 2020}}

The haplogroup U8b's most common subclade is haplogroup K, which is estimated to date to between 30,000 and 22,000 years ago.{{Citation needed|date=February 2020}} Haplogroup K makes up a sizeable fraction of European and West Asian mtDNA lineages. It is now known it is actually a subclade of haplogroup U8b'K, and is believed to have first arisen in northeastern Italy. Haplogroup UK shows some evidence of being highly protective against AIDS progression.

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Famous members

Dr. Sanjay Gupta carries haplogroup U2c.{{Cite episode |series=Finding Your Roots |network=PBS |date=2012-05-06 |season=1 |number=8 |language=en}}
Political analyst Linda Chavez is a member of haplogroup U5a1a1.{{cite magazine |author=Nadine Epstein |date=September–October 2012 |title=The Moment Magazine Great DNA Experiment |page=45 |url=https://momentmag.com/the-moment-magazine-great-dna-experiment/ |magazine=Moment Magazine |access-date=2024-03-07}}
Genetic genealogist CeCe Moore belongs to haplogroup U5b1b2.{{cite web |url=http://www.yourgeneticgenealogist.com/2010/12/my-full-mitochondrial-sequence-and.html |title=My Full Mitochondrial Sequence, Heteroplasmy and Comparing mtDNA designations at FTDNA and 23andMe |last=Moore |first=CeCe |date=2010-12-31 |website=Your Genetic Genealogist}}

References

External links

General
Ian Logan's [http://www.ianlogan.co.uk/sequences_by_group/haplogroup_select.htm Mitochondrial DNA Site]
Mannis van Oven's [http://www.phylotree.org Phylotree]
Haplogroup U
YFull MTree's [https://www.yfull.com/mtree/U/ Haplogroup U]
MITOMAP's [https://mitomap.org/cgi-bin/haplo_distribution?hg=U Haplogroup U]
[https://web.archive.org/web/20060320201934/https://www3.nationalgeographic.com/genographic/atlas.html?card=mm020 Spread of Haplogroup U], from National Geographic
[https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/u1-mtdna/about U1 mtDNA Project] at Family Tree DNA
[https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/mt-dnau3/about U3 mtDNA Haplogroup Project] at Family Tree DNA
[https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/u-4mt-dna/about/background U4 mtDNA Haplogroup Project] at Family Tree DNA
[https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/u-5b/about/background U5 mtDNA Project] at Family Tree DNA
[https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/u-6mtdna/about/background U6 mtDNA Project] at Family Tree DNA
[https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/mt-dna-u7/about/background U7 mtDNA Haplogroup] at Family Tree DNA
[https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/mt-dna-u8/about U8 mtDNA Haplogroup] at Family Tree DNA
[https://www.familytreedna.com/groups/mt-dna-u9/about U9 mtDNA Project] at Family Tree DNA