Haplogroup K (mtDNA)
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Haplogroup K is a human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroup. Haplogroup K is part of the larger haplogroup U. It is a mostly Eurasian haplotype, and is believed to have first appeared when human populations expanded through Europe after the last glacial maximum in 16,000 BC.
Approximately 32% of the haplotypes of modern people with Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry are in haplogroup K.
In his popular book The Seven Daughters of Eve, Bryan Sykes named the originator of this mtDNA haplogroup Katrine.
[edit] Famous members
Analysis of the mtDNA of Ötzi the Iceman, the frozen mummy from 3300 BC found on the Austrian-Italian border, has shown that Ötzi belongs to the K1 subcluster of the mitochondrial haplogroup K, but that it cannot be categorized into any of the three modern branches of that subcluster.
On an 18 November 2005 broadcast of the Today Show, during an interview with Dr. Spencer Wells of The National Geographic Genographic Project, host Katie Couric was revealed to belong to haplogroup K. [1]
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[edit] External links
- Spread of Haplogroup K, from National Geographic
- The mtDNA Haplogroup K Project
- Survey of 1000 K entries on MitoSearch
- Swinging in the mtDNA Tree
- Danish Demes Regional DNA Project: mtDNA Haplogroup K
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| L2 | L3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| M | N | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| M1 | CZ | D | E | G | Q | A | I | W | X | R | N1 | N2 | Y | ||||||||||||||
| C | Z | B | F | JT | P | U | |||||||||||||||||||||
| J | T | K | pre-HV | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| H | V | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
