Haplogroup M

M Haplogroup is the most common mtDNA found in Asia. It is also very common in Bangladesh and India. This Haplogroup has traveled to other areas. There are several subgroups that represent Haplogroup M.

Subclades include:

• Haplogroup M1 - found in North Africa, Horn of Africa, Mediterranean, and Middle East
• Haplogroup M2 - found in South Asia, with highest concentrations in SE India and Bangladesh; oldest haplogroup-M lineage on the Indian sub-continent.
  • M2a - most common in Bangladesh
  • M2b - most common in SE India
• Haplogroup M3 - found mainly in South Asia, with highest concentrations in west and NW India
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  • Haplogroup M4 - found mainly in South Asia but some sequences in Eastern Saudi Arabia
    • Haplogroup M4a - found in Gujarat, India
  • Haplogroup M30 - mainly in India, found in Middle East and North Africa.
  • Haplogroup M37
    • Haplogroup M37a - found in Gujarat, India
• Haplogroup M5 - found in South Asia
  • Haplogroup M5a - found in Orissa, India
• Haplogroup M6 - found mainly in South Asia, with highest concentrations in mid-eastern India and Kashmir
  • Haplogroup M6b - found in Kerala, India
• Haplogroup M7 - found in East Asia, especially in Japan
• Haplogroup M8
  • Haplogroup M8a - found in East Asia, especially in Japan

• Haplogroup CZ
  • Haplogroup C - found especially in Northeast Asia
    • Haplogroup C1 - found in Asia and America (Native Americans and Hispanics in particular)
    • Haplogroup C4
  • Haplogroup Z - found among diverse Eurasian populations: Hazara, Finns, Japanese, Sami and some Russians.

• Haplogroup M9 - found in East and Southeast Asia
  • Haplogroup E - a subclade of M9 - found especially in SE Asia
• Haplogroup M10 - small clade found in East Asia, Southeast Asia, Bangladesh, Central Asia, and southern Siberia
• Haplogroup M11 - small clade found especially among the Chinese and some Bangladeshis
• Haplogroup M12'G
  • Haplogroup M12 - small clade found in Japan
  • Haplogroup G - found especially in Siberia with some isolated instances in diverse places of Asia
• Haplogroup M21 - small clade found in SE Asia and Bangladesh
• Haplogroup M27 - found in Melanesia
• Haplogroup M28 - found in Melanesia
• Haplogroup M29'Q
  • Haplogroup M29 - found in Melanesia
  • Haplogroup Q - found in Melanesia and Australia (Aborigines)
• Haplogroup M31 - found among the Onge, in the Andaman Islands
• Haplogroup M32 - found in Andaman Islands
• Haplogroup M33 - small clade found in South Asia and Belarus
  • Haplogroup M33a - found in Gujarat, India
• Haplogroup M34 - small clade found in South Asia
  • Haplogroup M34a - found in Karnataka, India
• Haplogroup M35 - small clade found in South Asia and Slovakia
• Haplogroup M39 - found in South Asia
• Haplogroup M40 - found in South Asia
• Haplogroup M41 - found in South Asia
  • Haplogroup M41b - found in Andhra Pradesh, India
  • Haplogroup M41c - found in Andrah Pradesh, India
• Haplogroup M42 - found among Australian Abrorigines
• Haplogroup M48 - rare clade found at least in Saudi Arabia
• Haplogroup D - found in Eastern Eurasia, Native Americans, Central Asia and occasionally also in West Asia and Northern Europe.

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