D Haplogroup

Haplogroup D is believed to represent the Great Coastal Migration along southern Asia, from Arabia to Southeast Asia and thence northward to populate East Asia. This Haplogroup is found among populations in Tibet, the Japanese archipelago, and the Andaman Islands, strangely not in India. Haplogroup D chromosomes are also found in lesser amounts among populations of Central Asia and northern East Asia.

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

The Haplogroup D Y-chromosomes that are found among populations of the Japanese Archipelago are particularly distinctive, bearing a complex of at least five individual mutations along an internal branch of the Haplogroup D phylogeny, thus distinguishing them clearly from the Haplogroup D chromosomes that are found among the Tibetans and Andaman Islanders and providing evidence that Y-chromosome Haplogroup D2 was the modal Haplogroup in the ancestral population that developed the prehistoric Jōmon culture in the Japanese islands.

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