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.[3] However more recent estimates of the date of V would place it in the Neolithic.[1]
Haplogroup V is a relatively rare mtDNA haplogroup, occurring in around 4% of native Europeans.[5] 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.[6][7] Haplogroup V has been observed at higher than average levels among Cantabrian people (15%) of northern Iberia,[8] and among the adjacent Basque (10.4%).[9]
MtDNA haplogroup V has been reported in Neolithic remains of the Linear Pottery culture at Halberstadt, Germany c. 5000 BC[14] and Derenburg Meerenstieg, Germany c. 4910 BC.[15] Haplogroup V7 was found in representative Maykop culture samples in the excavations conducted by Alexei Rezepkin.[16] Haplogroup V has been detected in representatives Trypil'ska and Unetice culture.[17][18]
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[2] and subsequent published research.
V
V1
V1a found mostly from central to northeast Europe
V1a1 found in Scandinavia (including Lapland), Finland and Baltic countries
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^W. Haak et al., Ancient DNA from the First European Farmers in 7500-Year-Old Neolithic Sites, Science, vol. 310, no. 5750 (2005), pp. 1016-1018.
^W. Haak, et al., Ancient DNA from European Early Neolithic Farmers Reveals Their Near Eastern Affinities, PLOS Biology, vol. 8, no.11 (November 2010), e1000536.
^A. V. Nedoluzhko, E. S. Boulygina, A. S. Sokolov, S. V. Tsygankova, N. M. Gruzdeva, A. D. Rezepkin, E. B. Prokhortchouk. Analysis of the Mitochondrial Genome of a Novosvobodnaya Culture Representative using Next-Generation Sequencing and Its Relation to the Funnel Beaker Culture