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This project is a meeting place for users who share the HV0-T195C! Mitochondrial DNA haplogroup, which means they are related along their maternal lines. Users in this group may want to share their family trees with each other to find overlaps and merge duplicate profiles in order to join or expand the World Family Tree and discover new relatives.
Few academic studies to date have clearly distinguished haplogroup HV0 from haplogroup V for the simple reason that V and most of its subclades can only be identified through mutations in the coding region of the mitochondrion, and that studies until a few years ago generally tested only the hypervariable region (HVR) for budget reasons. The frequencies and distribution map on this page consequently do not distinguish between HV0 and V.
Haplogroups HV0 and V are remarkably evenly distributed across all Europe and North Africa, with a frequency ranging from 2% to 8% in practically all countries and regions. The only populations with substantially higher incidence of HV0 or V are the Sami (42%) of northern Scandinavia and Finland, and the Cantabrians (19%), isolated in mountains in northern Spain. Overall, HV0/V are slightly more common in around the Baltic, in Iberia and in the Maghreb than elsewhere.
Although haplogroup HV is most frequent in the Near East, where it probably originated, haplogroups HV0 and V are quite rare in that region. HV0/V are found in less than 1% of the Middle Eastern population in average, and are almost completely absent from the Arabian peninsula.