F Haplogroup

F Haplogroup and its subclades contain more than 90% of the world's extant male population, including almost everyone outside of Africa, except for Tibet, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Japan, Polynesia, and communities of indigenous Australians, while also including many men within those regions.

Haplogroup F is an ancestral haplogroup to Y-chromosome haplogroups G (M201), H (M52), I (M170), J (12f2.1), and K (M9) along with K's descendant haplogroups (L, M, N, O, P, Q, and R).

This ancient Haplogroup may have first appeared in North Africa, the Levant, or the Arabian Peninsula as much as 50,000 years ago.

It is sometimes believed to represent a "second-wave" of expansion out of Africa. However, the location of this lineage's first expansion and rise to dominance appears to have been in the Middle East or somewhere close to it within extended South Asia; all of Haplogroup F's descendant Haplogroups also show a pattern of radiation from South Asia (Haplogroups H and K) or the Middle East (Haplogroups G and IJ).

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