Y-DNA haplogroup guides

Each guide covers where a paternal lineage is found today, what is known about its origins and main subclades, and how many records from that lineage appear on the map by country.

• Haplogroup J1 (J-M267) — The Semitic and Arabian paternal lineage
• Haplogroup R1b (R-M343) — The dominant paternal lineage of Western Europe
• Haplogroup A — The deepest branch of the human paternal tree
• Haplogroup B — An ancient African lineage of hunter-gatherers
• Haplogroup C (C-M130) — An old lineage spanning Asia, Oceania and the Americas
• Haplogroup D (D-M174) — A relict lineage of East Asia and the archipelagos
• Haplogroup E1b1a (E-V38) — The dominant paternal lineage of West and Central Africa
• Haplogroup E1b1b (E-M215) — The lineage of the Mediterranean, North Africa and the Horn
• Haplogroup F (F-M89) — The ancestral trunk of most non-African lineages
• Haplogroup G (G-M201) — An early farming lineage of the Caucasus and beyond
• Haplogroup H (H-L901) — A South Asian lineage of the subcontinent
• Haplogroup I (I-M170) — One of Europe's oldest indigenous lineages
• Haplogroup J2 (J-M172) — The lineage of the northern Fertile Crescent and Mediterranean
• Haplogroup K (K-M9) — A major ancestral node of Eurasian and Oceanian lineages
• Haplogroup L (L-M20) — A lineage of the Indian subcontinent and Southwest Asia
• Haplogroup M (M-P256) — A lineage of New Guinea and Melanesia
• Haplogroup N (N-M231) — A northern Eurasian lineage from Siberia to the Baltic
• Haplogroup O (O-M175) — The dominant paternal lineage of East and Southeast Asia
• Haplogroup P (P-P295) — The ancestral node of Q and R
• Haplogroup Q (Q-M242) — The principal founding lineage of the Americas
• Haplogroup R1a (R-M420) — A steppe lineage of eastern Europe and South Asia
• Haplogroup T (T-M184) — A dispersed lineage of the Near East, Africa and the Mediterranean