Haplogroup F is a human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroup. The clade is most common in

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and

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.Supannee Kaewsutthi, Nopasak Phasukkijwatana, Yutthana Joyjinda ''et al.'', "Mitochondrial Haplogroup Background May Influence Southeast Asian G11778A Leber Hereditary Optic Neuropathy", ''Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science'', June 2011, Vol. 52, No. 7 It has not been found among Native Americans.Haplogroup F.
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Distribution

The F haplogroup is fairly common in

. High frequencies of the clade are found among the Lahu from

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(33% - 77%, average 52%),

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(50%), Shors from

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of Siberia (41%), and

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, India (31%). There is also an important frequency in

Taiwanese aborigines Taiwanese may refer to: * Taiwanese language, another name for Taiwanese Hokkien * Something from or related to Taiwan ( Formosa) * Taiwanese aborigines, the indigenous people of Taiwan * Han Taiwanese, the Han people of Taiwan * Taiwanese peo ...

Khakas The Khakas (also spelled Khakass; Khakas: , ''khakas'', , ''tadar'', , ''khakastar'', , ''tadarlar'') are a Turkic indigenous people of Siberia, who live in the republic of Khakassia, Russia. They speak the Khakas language. The Khakhassi ...

, Kets,

Han Chinese The Han Chinese () or Han people (), are an East Asian ethnic group native to China. They constitute the world's largest ethnic group, making up about 18% of the global population and consisting of various subgroups speaking distinctive v ...

(and, thus, nearly all of China),

Lombok Lombok is an island in West Nusa Tenggara province, Indonesia. It forms part of the chain of the Lesser Sunda Islands, with the Lombok Strait separating it from Bali to the west and the Alas Strait between it and Sumbawa to the east. It is ...

Sumba Sumba ( id, Pulau Sumba) is an island in eastern Indonesia. It is one of the Lesser Sunda Islands and is in the province of East Nusa Tenggara. Sumba has an area of , and the population was 779,049 at the 2020 Census; the official estimate as a ...

Thailand Thailand ( ), historically known as Siam () and officially the Kingdom of Thailand, is a country in Southeast Asia, located at the centre of the Indochinese Peninsula, spanning , with a population of almost 70 million. The country is b ...

, and

Vietnam Vietnam or Viet Nam ( vi, Việt Nam, ), officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam,., group="n" is a country in Southeast Asia, at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of and population of 96 million, making ...

. Its distribution extends with low frequency to the Tharu of southern

Nepal Nepal (; ne, नेपाल ), formerly the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal ( ne, सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल ), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is ma ...

and the

Bashkirs , native_name_lang = bak , flag = File:Bashkirs of Baymak rayon.jpg , flag_caption = Bashkirs of Baymak in traditional dress , image = , caption = , population = approx. 2 million , popplace ...

of the southern

Urals The Ural Mountains ( ; rus, Ура́льские го́ры, r=Uralskiye gory, p=ʊˈralʲskʲɪjə ˈɡorɨ; ba, Урал тауҙары) or simply the Urals, are a mountain range that runs approximately from north to south through western ...

.M. A. Bermisheva, K. Tambets, R. Villems, and E. K. Khusnutdinova, "Diversity of Mitochondrial DNA Haplogroups in Ethnic Populations of the Volga–Ural Region", ''Molecular Biology'' Vol. 36, No. 6, 2002, pp. 802–812. Translated from ''Molekulyarnaya Biologiya'', Vol. 36, No. 6, 2002, pp. 990–1001. Haplogroup F also occurs at low frequencies on the

Comoros Islands The Comoro Islands or Comoros (Shikomori ''Komori''; ar, جزر القمر , ''Juzur al-qamar''; french: Les Comores) form an archipelago of volcanic islands situated off the southeastern coast of Africa, to the east of Mozambique and northwe ...

(<10%). It is also found at low frequencies on The

Hvar Hvar (; Chakavian: ''Hvor'' or ''For'', el, Φάρος, Pharos, la, Pharia, it, Lesina) is a Croatian island in the Adriatic Sea, located off the Dalmatian coast, lying between the islands of Brač, Vis and Korčula. Approximately long, wi ...

island in Croatia (8.3%).

Table of Frequencies of MtDNA Haplogroup F

Subclades

F1a clearly predominates among the representatives of haplogroup F in

, but subclades of this haplogroup have been found in populations as far north as the

Buryats The Buryats ( bua, Буряад, Buryaad; mn, Буриад, Buriad) are a Mongolic ethnic group native to southeastern Siberia who speak the Buryat language. They are one of the two largest indigenous groups in Siberia, the other being the ...

and Ulchi of Siberia. F1b tends to become more frequent as a fraction of total F in populations of the northern parts of

and

Central Asia Central Asia, also known as Middle Asia, is a region of Asia that stretches from the Caspian Sea in the west to western China and Mongolia in the east, and from Afghanistan and Iran in the south to Russia in the north. It includes the fo ...

, such as

Mongols The Mongols ( mn, Монголчууд, , , ; ; russian: Монголы) are an East Asian ethnic group native to Mongolia, Inner Mongolia in China and the Buryatia Republic of the Russian Federation. The Mongols are the principal member ...

Kazakhs The Kazakhs (also spelled Qazaqs; Kazakh: , , , , , ; the English name is transliterated from Russian; russian: казахи) are a Turkic-speaking ethnic group native to northern parts of Central Asia, chiefly Kazakhstan, but also part ...

Uyghurs The Uyghurs; ; ; ; zh, s=, t=, p=Wéiwú'ěr, IPA: ( ), alternatively spelled Uighurs, Uygurs or Uigurs, are a Turkic peoples, Turkic ethnic group originating from and culturally affiliated with the general region of Central Asia, Cent ...

, and Japanese. It also has been found among the

Yi people The Yi or Nuosu people,; zh, c=彝族, p=Yízú, l=Yi ethnicity historically known as the Lolo,; vi, Lô Lô; th, โล-โล, Lo-Lo are an ethnic group in China, Vietnam, and Thailand. Numbering nine million people, they are the seve ...

. There are odd exclaves of F1b in Gaininsk

Perm Oblast Until 1 December 2005, Perm Oblast (russian: Пе́рмская о́бласть) was a federal subject of Russia (an oblast) in Privolzhsky (Volga) Federal District. According to the results of the referendum held in October 2004, Perm Oblast was ...

and

Croats The Croats (; hr, Hrvati ) are a South Slavic ethnic group who share a common Croatian ancestry, culture, history and language. They are also a recognized minority in a number of neighboring countries, namely Austria, the Czech Republic ...

of Hvar Island. F1d is the second most frequent sub-clade in Newar (Nepal). Haplogroup F1d reaches the greatest proportion in Newar (11.97%) of Nepal and Kshatriya (16%) of North India. F2 has been found mainly in the form of F2a, which has been observed in more than 10% of a couple samples of Nu and Lisu from

Gongshan Gongshan Derung and Nu Autonomous County (; Lisu: ꓗꓳꓹ-ꓢ ꓔꓴꓽ-ꓡꓳꓽ ꓫꓵꓽ ꓠꓳꓸ ꓫꓵꓽ ꓚꓲꓸ ꓛꓬꓽ ꓗꓪꓼ ꓫꓵꓽ ꓫꓯꓹ; Derung: Koksang, the name has nothing to do with the Derung language for Gaoligong ...

. F2 has been found with frequencies exceeding 5% in several other populations of

Southwest China Southwest China () is a region in the south of the People's Republic of China. Geography Southwest China is a rugged and mountainous region, transitioning between the Tibetan Plateau to the west and the Chinese coastal hills (东南丘陵) and ...

Guangxi Guangxi (; ; alternately romanized as Kwanghsi; ; za, Gvangjsih, italics=yes), officially the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region (GZAR), is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China, located in South China and bordering Vietnam ...

, and

Hainan Hainan (, ; ) is the smallest and southernmost province of the People's Republic of China (PRC), consisting of various islands in the South China Sea. , the largest and most populous island in China,The island of Taiwan, which is slightly l ...

, including the Han majority population. Outside of southwestern China, F2 has been found with frequency greater than 5% in a sample of Oirat

from

Xinjiang Xinjiang, SASM/GNC: ''Xinjang''; zh, c=, p=Xīnjiāng; formerly romanized as Sinkiang (, ), officially the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region (XUAR), is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China (PRC), located in the northwes ...

and a sample of

from

Khakassia Khakassia (russian: Хакасия; kjh, Хакасия, Хакас Чирі, ''Khakasiya'', ''Khakas Çiri''), officially the Republic of Khakassia (russian: Республика Хакасия, r=Respublika Khakasiya, ; kjh, Хакас Рес ...

, with the former population boasting particularly high diversity within this clade. F3 is especially common among

Austronesian peoples The Austronesian peoples, sometimes referred to as Austronesian-speaking peoples, are a large group of peoples in Taiwan, Maritime Southeast Asia, Micronesia, coastal New Guinea, Island Melanesia, Polynesia, and Madagascar that speak Au ...

Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the no ...

and the

Malay Archipelago The Malay Archipelago ( Indonesian/ Malay: , tgl, Kapuluang Malay) is the archipelago between mainland Indochina and Australia. It has also been called the " Malay world," " Nusantara", "East Indies", Indo-Australian Archipelago, Spices Arc ...

, but it also has been found in many populations of

and South-Central China, and in a sample of

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from

. F4 has been found mainly in aboriginal populations of

and

, with some representatives among samples of Filipinos from

Luzon Luzon (; ) is the largest and most populous island in the Philippines. Located in the northern portion of the Philippines archipelago, it is the economic and political center of the nation, being home to the country's capital city, Manila, as ...

, Indonesians from

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, and Hans and Uzbeks from

Tree

This phylogenetic tree of haplogroup F 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. *F **F* – China, KoreaHwan Young Lee, Ji-Eun Yoo, Myung Jin Park, Ukhee Chung, Chong-Youl Kim, and Kyoung-Jin Shin, "East Asian mtDNA haplogroup determination in Koreans: Haplogroup-level coding region SNP analysis and subhaplogroup-level control region sequence analysis." ''Electrophoresis'' (2006). DOI 10.1002/elps.200600151. **F1 ***F1a'c'f – Thailand ( Kaleun in Nakhon Phanom ProvinceWibhu Kutanan, Jatupol Kampuansai, Metawee Srikummool, Daoroong Kangwanpong, Silvia Ghirotto, Andrea Brunelli, and Mark Stoneking, "Complete mitochondrial genomes of Thai and Lao populations indicate an ancient origin of Austroasiatic groups and demic diffusion in the spread of Tai–Kadai languages." ''Hum Genet'' 2016 DOI 10.1007/s00439-016-1742-y.), China, Korea, Kazakhstan ****F1a – China, Korea, Uyghur, Thailand *****F1a1'4 – Thailand ( Khon Mueang in Chiang Rai Province), China ******F1a1 – Japan, Korea, China, Ulchi, Uyghur, Vietnam (incl. Cờ Lao), Laos, Thailand, Indonesia, Mexico *******F1a1a – Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, China (Zhanjiang, ''etc.''), Tibet, Indonesia ********F1a1a1 – Vietnam, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, Nicobar Islands, Malay, Indonesia, China, Uyghur *******F1a1b – Japan, Korea *******F1a1c – Zhuang (Bama), Thailand, Tibet, Buryats (Inner Mongolia and Irkutsk Oblast), Japan ********F1a1c1 – Moken ********F1a1c2 – Japan, Xibo, China (Shanghai) *******F1a1d – Thailand, China, Taiwan (Tsou, Bunun, Rukai), Philippines ********F1a1d1 – Tao (Orchid Island) ******F1a4 *******F1a4a – Thailand, Han Chinese (Denver), Ulchi ********F1a4a1 – Taiwan (Tsou, Makatao, Bunun, Ami, ''etc.''), Philippines (Ivatan, Ibaloi, Abaknon,

Bugkalot The Bugkalot (also Ilongot or Ibilao) are a tribe inhabiting the southern Sierra Madre and Caraballo Mountains, on the east side of Luzon in the Philippines, primarily in the provinces of Nueva Vizcaya and Nueva Ecija and along the mountain bord ...

, Kalangoya, Dulag, ''etc.''), Guam, Malaysia ( Kelantan Malay), Sumatra, Vietnam ( Dao), Thailand ( Khon Mueang in Mae Hong Son Province and Chiang Mai Province), South Africa *******F1a4b – China *****F1a2 – Thailand, Vietnam (Hmong), China (Guizhou) ******F1a2a – Thailand (Phutai in Sakon Nakhon Province, Nyaw in Nakhon Phanom Province, Mon in Lopburi Province), China (Han in Zhanjiang, Dong, ''etc.'') *****F1a3 – Thailand, Uyghur ******F1a3a – Filipino ( Lipa City), Indonesia *******F1a3a1 – Japan ********F1a3a1a – Japan, Korea *******F1a3a2 – Philippines ( Ivatan) *******F1a3a3 – Taiwan ( Tsou, Bunun, Makatao, Thao), Philippines ( Ivatan) ****F1c – Japan *****F1c1 – Japan ******F1c1a – Korea, Xinjiang, Tibet, Jammu and Kashmir, Thailand (Palaung in Chiang Mai Province, Khmu in Nan Province, Khon Mueang in Lampang Province) *******F1c1a1 – Russia, China (Qingdao, ''etc.''), Evenk (New Barag Left Banner), Oroqen, Zhuang (Bama), Taiwan (Minnan) ********F1c1a1a – Tibet (Shannan, Sherpa, ''etc.''), Yi ********F1c1a1b – China *******F1c1a2 – Tibet, Thailand, China (Chongqing), India ****F1f – Thailand, China, Lahu, Myanmar, Tibet, Cambodia, Vietnam (Hmong) ***F1b - Korea ****F1b1 – China, Tibet (Shigatse, ''etc.''), Ladakh, Uyghur (Artux, ''etc.''), Kyrgyz, Azeri, Kurd (Iran), Armenian, Turkey, Russia, Croatia *****F1b1a – Japan, Korea, Uyghur ******F1b1a1 – Japan, Korea *******F1b1a1a – Japan, Korea, USA (African American)Rebecca S Just, Melissa K Scheible, Spence A Fast, ''et al.'', "Full mtGenome reference data: development and characterization of 588 forensic-quality haplotypes representing three U.S. populations." ''Forensic Sci Int Genet.'' 2015 Jan;14:141-55. doi: 10.1016/j.fsigen.2014.09.021. Epub 2014 Oct 5. ********F1b1a1a1 – Japan, Korea *********F1b1a1a1a – Japan ********F1b1a1a2 – Japan, Korea ********F1b1a1a3 – Japan ******F1b1a2 – Japan, Korea *****F1b1b – Yakut, Uyghur, Kyrgyz, Turk, Even ( Sakkyryyr, Tompo), Korea *****F1b1c – China, Yi, Buryat *****F1b1d – Japan, Korea *****F1b1e – Uyghur, Kyrgyz, Buryat, Oroqen, Russian (

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) ******F1b1e1 – Yakut *****F1b1f – China, Uyghur, Buryat (

Buryat Republic Buryatia, officially the Republic of Buryatia (russian: Республика Бурятия, r=Respublika Buryatiya, p=rʲɪsˈpublʲɪkə bʊˈrʲætʲɪjə; bua, Буряад Улас, Buryaad Ulas, , mn, Буриад Улс, Buriad Uls), is ...

), Yakut (

Namsky District Namsky District (russian: На́мский улу́с; sah, Нам улууһа, ''Nam uluuha'') is an administrativeConstitution of the Sakha Republic, Article 45 and municipalLaw #172-Z #351-III district ( raion, or ''ulus''), one of the t ...

), Evenk (Stony Tunguska River basin), Hungary (ancient Avars) ***F1d – China, Taiwan (Minnan, ''etc.''), Tibet (Lhasa, ''etc.''), Thailand (

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in Kanchanaburi Province), Japan, Kyrgyz (Artux), Hezhen, ancient Scythian ****F1d1 – Tibet, Nepal (Tharu), Newar of Nepal (12%), Myanmar, Thailand (

in Kanchanaburi Province), China, Japan, South Africa ***F1e – Thailand ****F1e1 – China (Han from Hunan) *****F1e1a – Japan ****F1e2 – China, Kyrgyz (Tashkurgan) ****F1e3 – China (Shantou, ''etc.''), Laos ( Lao in Vientiane), Thailand ( Phuan in Lopburi Province and Phichit Province), Sumatra ***F1g – Tibet, Thailand ( Phuan in Lopburi Province, Sukhothai Province, and Phichit Province), China, Kyrgyz (Tashkurgan) ****F1g1 – China (Yunnan, ''etc.''), Vietnam (Hmong, Dao), Nepal (Newar, 2.4%) **F2 ***F2* – Laos ( Lao in Vientiane), China, Hong Kong, Uyghur (Artux) ***F2a'b'g ****F2a – China (Han from Beijing, Xinjiang, ''etc.''), Taiwan (Makatao), Korea, Japan, Kazakhstan *****F2a1 – China (Han from Shandong), Naxi, Bai, Nu, Tu ( Monguor),Kong, Q.P., Yao, Y.G., Sun, C., Zhu, C.L., Zhong, L., Wang, C.Y., Cai, W.W., Xu, X.M., Xu, A.L. and Zhang, Y.P., 2004. Phylogeographic analysis of mitochondrial DNA haplogroup F2 in China reveals T12338C in the initiation codon of the ND5 gene not to be pathogenic. Journal of human genetics, 49(8), p.414. Yi,

Tibetan Tibetan may mean: * of, from, or related to Tibet * Tibetan people, an ethnic group * Tibetan language: ** Classical Tibetan, the classical language used also as a contemporary written standard ** Standard Tibetan, the most widely used spoken diale ...

*****F2a2 – China (Han from Zhanjiang, ''etc.''), Miao (Guizhou), Kinh (Guangxi), Dai and Lisu (Yunnan) *****F2a3 – China (Han from Xinjiang, Yunnan, Qinghai, and Shandong), Tu, Hui, Mongols in Inner Mongolia ****F2b – China (Han from Qingdao), Taiwan (Hakka) *****F2b1 – Thailand ( Lao Isan in Roi Et Province and Chaiyaphum Province, Khon Mueang in Lampang Province), China (Han from Beijing, Xinjiang, ''etc.''), Buryat (Irkutsk Oblast), Yakut, Even (NE Sakha Republic), Yukaghir (NE Sakha Republic),Sardana A Fedorova, Maere Reidla, Ene Metspalu, ''et al.'', "Autosomal and uniparental portraits of the native populations of Sakha (Yakutia): implications for the peopling of Northeast Eurasia." ''BMC Evolutionary Biology'' 2013, 13:127. http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/13/127 Nepal (Newar, 1.1%) ****F2g – China, Ladakh ***F2c – China ****F2c1 – China (Shantou, ''etc.''), Japan ****F2c2 – China (Han from Beijing), Kyrgyzstan (Kyrgyz) ***F2d – China, Uyghur, Thailand (Khon Mueang in Chiang Mai Province and Lamphun Province), Singapore, Japan, Kazakhstan ***F2e – China, Thailand (Tai Yuan in Uttaradit Province, Phuan in Phrae Province and Lopburi Province, Khon Mueang in Chiang Mai Province), Vietnam ( Dao) ****F2e1 – China, Barghut (Hulun Buir) ***F2f – Japan, Korea, China, Pakistan ( Hazara), Azerbaijan (Astara),

Bashkortostan The Republic of Bashkortostan or Bashkortostan ( ba, Башҡортостан Республикаһы, Bashqortostan Respublikahy; russian: Республика Башкортостан, Respublika Bashkortostan),; russian: Респу́блик� ...

( Bashkir), Poland ***F2h'i – China ****F2h – China, Tibet (Lhasa), Taiwan, Thailand (

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in Kanchanaburi Province) ****F2i – China, Taiwan (Makatao), Korea **F3 (formerly R9a) ***F3a – China (Han from Ili, ''etc.''), Uyghur, Thailand ****F3a1 – China (Han from Yunnan, Guizhou, Shantou,

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,Hongbin Yao, Mengge Wang, Xing Zou, ''et al.'', "New insights into the fine-scale history of western-eastern admixture of the northwestern Chinese population in the Hexi Corridor via genome-wide genetic legacy." ''Mol Genet Genomics'' 2021 Mar 1. doi: 10.1007/s00438-021-01767-0. ''etc.''), Kyrgyz (Tashkurgan), Taiwan (Hakka, ''etc.''), Thailand ( Phuan in Suphan Buri Province, Shan in Mae Hong Son Province, Khon Mueang in Chiang Rai Province, Mae Hong Son Province, Chiang Mai Province, Lamphun Province, and Lampang Province), Vietnam ( Hmong, Dao) ***F3b – Thailand, Japan, Korea, China (Han from Qijiang), Yi ****F3b1 – Philippines, Comoros (Comorian from Grande Comore), USA *****F3b1a – Taiwan (Rukai, Puyuma, Paiwan, Tsou, Makatao, Bunun, Ami, ''etc.''), Philippines (

Maranao The Maranao people (Maranao: mәranaw Filipino: ''Maranaw''), also spelled Meranao, Maranaw, and Mëranaw, is the term used by the Philippine government to refer to the southern indigenous people who are the "people of the lake", a predomi ...

) ******F3b1a1 – Philippines (Bugkalot), Indonesia ******F3b1a2 – Taiwan (Puyuma, Bunun, Paiwan, ''etc.'') *****F3b1b – Madagascar, Sumatra, Philippines (Batak from Palawan Island) ******F3b1b1 – Philippines (Ibaloi, Kankanaey, Ifugao), Spain, Denmark **F4 ***F4a – Thailand/Laos, China, Taiwan, Korea ****F4a1 *****F4a1a – Japan, China ( Han from

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), Taiwan *****F4a1b – China, Japan ****F4a2 – China, Laos ( Lao in Vientiane and Luang Prabang), Thailand ( Phuan in Lopburi Province, Nyah Kur in Chaiyaphum Province, Khon Mueang in Lamphun Province) ***F4b – China (Han from Beijing), Thailand ( Khon Mueang in Mae Hong Son Province, Lao Isan in Roi Et Province) ****F4b1 – China, Taiwan (Atayal, Bunun, Saisiyat, Thao, Tsou, Ami, Makatao, ''etc.''), Philippines, Madagascar

References

External links

*General **Ian Logan'
Mitochondrial DNA Site
**Mannis van Oven'
Phylotree
*Haplogroup F

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Distribution

Table of Frequencies of MtDNA Haplogroup F

Subclades

Tree

See also

References

External links