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Haplogroup N (mtdna)




An enormous haplogroup spanning many continents, the macro-Haplogroup N is a branch of the Africa n haplogroup L3 , and is believed to have originated in Africa some 60,000 years before present.

The two haplogroups M and N are believed to represent the initial migration by modern humans out of Africa . Haplogroup N is the ancestral haplogroup to almost all European haplogroups and many Eurasian ones.

Its descendant haplogroups include the macro Haplogroup R (and its descendants) and haplogroups N1 , A , I , W , and X .


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