title: Haplogroup V (mtDNA)
text: Haplogroup V is a human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroup. The clade is believed to have originated over 14,000 years ago in Southern Europe.
  
  Origin
  Haplogroup V derives from the HV0a subclade of haplogroup HV. In 1998 it was argued that V spread over Europe from an Ice Age refuge in Iberia. However more recent estimates of the date of V would place it in the Neolithic.
  
  Distribution
  Haplogroup V is a relatively rare mtDNA haplogroup, occurring in around 4% of native Europeans. Its highest concentration is among the Saami people of northern Fennoscandia (~59%). It has been found at a frequency of approximately 10% among the Maris of the Volga-Ural region, leading to the suggestion that this region might be the source of the V among the Saami. Haplogroup V has been observed at higher than average levels among Cantabrian people (15%) of northern Iberia, and among the adjacent Basque (10.4%).
  
  Haplogroup V is also found in parts of Northwest Africa. It is mainly concentrated among the Tuareg inhabiting the Gorom-Gorom area in Burkina Faso (21%), Sahrawi in the Western Sahara (17.9%), and Berbers of Matmata, Tunisia (16.3%). The rare V7a subclade occurs among Algerians in Oran (1.08%) and Reguibate Sahrawi (1.85%).
  
  Ancient DNA
  MtDNA haplogroup V has been reported in Neolithic remains of the Linear Pottery culture at Halberstadt,  Germany c. 5000 BC and Derenburg Meerenstieg, Germany c. 4910 BC. Haplogroup V7 was found in representative Maykop culture samples in the excavations conducted by Alexei Rezepkin. Haplogroup V has been detected in representatives Trypil'ska and Unetice culture.
  
  Haplogroup V has also been found among Iberomaurusian specimens dating from the Epipaleolithic at the Taforalt prehistoric site 14,000 years BP.
  
  Haplogroup V has also been found among Somogyvár-Vinkovci culture specimens dating from the Bronze Age from Western Hungary https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.02.03.478968v1.full.pdf
  
  Tree
  This phylogenetic tree of haplogroup V subclades is based on the paper by Mannis van Oven and Manfred Kayser Updated comprehensive phylogenetic tree of global human mitochondrial DNA variation and subsequent published research.
  
  V
  V1
  V1a  found mostly from central to northeast Europe
  V1a1 found in Scandinavia (including Lapland), Finland and Baltic countries
  V1a2 found in Bronze Age Poland
  V1b
  V2 found in the British Isles
  V2a  found in Ireland
  V2a1
  V2a1a
  V2b  found in England
  V2b1
  V2c found in England
  V3 found in northwest Europe / found in Late Neolithic Hungary (Bell Beaker)
  V3b
  V3c found in northern, central and eastern Europe
  V4  found in France
  V5  found in Lapland
  V6 found in northwest Europe
  V7
  V7a found mostly in Slavic countries, but also in Scandinavia, Germany and France
  V7b found in eastern Europe and France
  V8  found in North Europe
  V9
  V9a found in the British Isles
  V9a1
  V9a2
  V10 found in the British Isles, northwest France and Sweden / found in Bell Beaker Scotland
  V10a
  V10b found in EBA England
  V11 
  V12 found in Germany
  V14  found in Poland and Iberia
  V15  found in England, Norway and Armenia
  V15a
  V16 found in Britain, Germany and Denmark
  V17 found in England / found in Late Neolithic France
  V18 found in the Netherlands, Germany and Italy
  V18a found in Slavic countries, Sweden, Denmark, Spain, and the Netherlands
  V19
  V20 found in Norway
  V21
  V22
  V23
  V24
  V25 found in South Europe
  V26
  V27
  V28
  V29
  V30
  V31
  V32
  V33
  V34
  V35
  V36
  V37
  V38
  V39
  V40
  V41
  V42
  V43
  V44
  V45
  V46
  V47
  V48
  V49
  V50
  V51
  V52
  V53
  V54
  V55
  V56
  V57
  V58
  V59
  V60
  V61
  V62
  V63
  V64
  V65
  V66
  V67
  V68
  V69
  V70
  V71
  V72
  V73
  V74
  V75
  V76
  V77
  V78
  
  See also 
  
  Benjamin Franklin
  Velda
  Genealogical DNA test
  Genetic genealogy
  Human mitochondrial genetics
  Population genetics
  Human mitochondrial DNA haplogroups
  
  References
  
  External links 
  General
  Ian Logan's Mitochondrial DNA Site: V
  Mannis van Oven's Phylotree
  Haplogroup V
  Family Tree DNA Project:  mtDNA Haplogroup V
  Danish Demes Regional DNA Project:  mtDNA Haplogroup V
  
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