Haplogroup C (mtDNA)

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

Haplogroup C is believed to have arisen in Asia some 60,000 years before present. It is a descendant of the haplogroup M.

Haplogroup C is found in Northeast Asia<ref name="tree">Haplogroup C.</ref> (including Siberia) and is also one of five haplogroups found in the indigenous peoples of the Americas<ref name="tree"/>, the others being A, B, D, and X.

In his popular book The Seven Daughters of Eve, Bryan Sykes named the originator of this mtDNA haplogroup Chochmingwu.

References

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See also

• Human mitochondrial DNA haplogroups
• Human mitochondrial genetics

External links

• Spread of Haplogroup C, from National Geographic

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