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For people who have tested and are assigned the paternal Y-DNA haplogroup K-M9 or who are believed to have had that paternal haplogroup based on descendants tested.
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Possible time of origin: 47,000 years BP
Possible place of origin: South or West Asia
Ancestor: IJK
Descendants: K(xLT), and LT
Distribution
K-M9 (M9) Typical of populations of all Eurasia, Oceania, and the Americas, with a moderate distribution throughout northern Africa Important in Indigenous Australians from Arnhem Land=30%, Great Sandy Desert=17%[4] and other parts of Australia=42%.[5] High frequency in Micronesians from Kapingamarangi=67% and Majuro=64%.[6] In Melanesia 21%,[7] specially in Vanuatu=58%. In Filipinos(some ethnic tribes)=45%.[8] In Northeast India=8.3%.[9] In Europe found in Macedonians=1.3% ; Serbians=7.1 , Croatians=0.9 and Herzegovinians=2.8[10] http://familypedia.wikia.com/wiki/Haplogroup_K-M9
Origins
Y-DNA haplogroup K-M9 is an old lineage established approximately 40,000-50,000 years ago whose origins were probably in Southwestern Asia, South Eastern Asia, or South Asia. At present this group contains two distinct classes of subgroups: 1. Haplogroup LT 2. Haplogroup K(xLT. Today haplogroup K-M9 is only in four states M9, P128, P131, P132. The others are descending mutations are ancestral to the descendant haplogroups (L,M,NO,P,S,T) within haplogroup K-(LT)in addition to that there are also the mutations that define the descendant haplogroups in paragroup K (K1-K4). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_K-M9