Talk:Haplogroup K (mtDNA)

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[edit] Definition of mtDNA haplogroups

What is the definition of each of the mtDNA haplogroups? I.e. by which mutation it characterized? --Maruvkay

Check the phylogeny in image 1 of A. González et al. The mitochondrial lineage U8a reveals a Paleolithic settlement in the Basque country. BMC Genomics, 2006.

I am now going to edite the article (totally obsolete) to fit with more recent research like that. --Sugaar

[edit] Propose to delete map image.

It is surely inaccurate, as different clades of U (or UK if you wish) seem to have arrived to Europe in different moments and there is also an important subclade (at least) that is typically South Asian (U2). The spread of U seems to have branched out from West or South Asia and not as it appears in that map, from Ukraine or Central Europe. While U5 and U8a are definitively very old in Europe (Aurignacian?), others, including K maybe, are more recent.

(For references supporting this rationale check the references in the article:

• Richards et al., Tracing European Founder Lineages in the Near Eastern mtDNA Pool. AJHG, 2000.
• A. González et al., The mitochondrial lineage U8a reveals a Paleolithic settlement in the Basque country. BMC Genomics, 2006

--Sugaar (talk) 16:24, 5 March 2008 (UTC)