Haplogroup R (mtDNA)

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Haplogroup R
Time of origin before 55000 years before present
Place of origin Near East
Ancestor N
Descendants B, F, pre-HV, pre-JT, P, UK
Defining mutations 73, 7028, 11719, 14766

In human genetics, Haplogroup R is a human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroup.

Haplogroup R is a descendant of macro-Haplogroup N. Among its descendant haplogroups are B, UK (and thus U and K), F, pre-HV (and thus HV, H, and V), and the ancestral haplogroup of J and T.

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Human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroups

most recent common mt-ancestor
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L0 L1
L2 L3 L4 L5 L6 L7
M N
CZ D E G Q A I R S W X Y
C Z B F pre-HV pre-JT P UK
HV JT U K
H V J T
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