The genetic term haplogroups provides critical knowledge about DNA structure. An ancestral collection of gene information exists as population group subdivisions. Understanding ancestral roots and ...

Purpose It has been hypothesised that certain mitochondrial haplogroups, which are defined by the presence of a characteristic cluster of tightly linked mitochondrial DNA polymorphisms, would be ...

Geneticists have studied the distribution of Y-chromosome haplogroups on the Faroe Islands, known to have been colonized by Vikings around the year 900 CE, and compared these to distributions of ...