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Haplogroup D (y-dna)




D is believed to have originated in Africa some 50,000 years before present. Along with Haplogroup E , D contains the distinctive YAP polymorphism, which indicates their common ancestry.

Both D and E also contain the M168 change, which is present in all Y-chromosome haplogroups except A and B .

  • , D represents a great coastal migration along southern Asia, from Arabia to Southeast Asia . It is found today in populations in the Andaman Islands and Southeast Asia, though curiously not in India .


Unlike haplogroup C, it did not travel from Asia to the New World.


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