The map [below]ย shows what the borders of Europe, the Middle East and North Africa might look like if they were based on the dominantย Y-DNA haplogroupย rather than ethnicity and/or any other political considerations. [Y DNA groupย haplogroups show only the male lineage, not the female mitochondria line. Another visual representation of male and female haplogroups is available here.]
Here isย some very basic information about each group:
Haplogroup R1b:ย โIt is the most frequently occurring paternal lineage in Western Europe, as well as some parts of Russia.”
Haplogroup R1a:ย โIt is distributed in a large region in Eurasia.”
Haplogroup N:ย โIt has a wide geographic distribution throughout northern Eurasia.”
Haplogroup I1:ย โThe haplogroup reaches its peak frequencies in Sweden [โฆ] and western Finland.”
Haplogroup I2:ย โThe haplogroup reaches its maximum frequency in the Dinaric Alps in the Balkans.”
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Haplogroup J1:ย โThis haplogroup is found today in significant frequencies in many areas in or near the Middle East.”
Haplogroup J2:ย โIt is found in Western Asia, Central Asia, South Asia, Europe and North Africa.”
Haplogroup E:ย โMost members of haplogroup E-M96 [..] are found almost exclusively in Africa.”
Haplogroup G:ย โAt the level of national populations, G-M201 is most commonly found in Georgia.”
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