Information on Haplogroups

You have just sequenced a piece of your own DNA, and analyzed its information. Now that you know your haplogroup, you might wonder what that could mean to you personally: Here are links to information available on Wikipedia for each haplogroup. There is also a link to the more general "Human mitochondrial DNA haplogroup".

It might be fun to speculate on the meaning of the information from the haplogroups. However, there is a disclaimer: I will just include an excerpt here directly from Wikipedia.

European haplogroups

Bryan Sykes had claimed there were seven major mitochondrial lineages for modern Europeans but others now put the number at 10-12. These additional "daughters" generally include haplogroups I, M and W. A recent paper re-mapped European haplogroups as H, J, K, N1, T, U4, U5, V, X and W. It should however be noted that haplogroups are arbitrary categories defined by mutations, which themselves are numerous and the result of a random process. It could reasonably be said that there are almost any number of haplogroups present in a particular region. Furthermore, attributing a specific geographic origin to any haplogroup, such as those proposed in the table below, is highly speculative and considered by most population geneticists to be 'story telling' and outside the domain of science. The same can also be said of inferring a close association between a specific haplogroup and a particular archaeological culture.

Nevertheless, you can start looking at the table below and then go on to the links provided for each of the haplogroups, to create your own personal story.