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U5a2b (mtDNA)

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Purpose of this project is to add profiles that have been verified or highly suspected to belong to this haplogroup.
Maternal haplogroup U5a2b 🧬 mtDNA (Mitochondrial DNA).

Maternal Haplogroup

You descend from a long line of female ancestors that can be traced back to eastern Africa over 150,000 years ago. These are the people of your maternal line, and your maternal haplogroup sheds light on their story.

As our ancestors ventured out of eastern Africa, they branched off in diverse groups that crossed and recrossed the globe over tens of thousands of years. Some of their migrations can be traced through haplogroups, families of lineages that descend from a common ancestor. Your maternal haplogroup can reveal the path followed by the women of your maternal line.

Migrations of Your Maternal Line

↳ Haplogroup L0 180,000 Years Ago
If every person living today could trace his or her maternal line back over thousands of generations, all of our lines would meet at a single woman who lived in eastern Africa between 150,000 and 200,000 years ago. Though she was one of perhaps thousands of women alive at the time, only the diverse branches of her haplogroup have survived to today. The story of your maternal line begins with her.

↳ Haplogroup L3
65,000 Years Ago

↳ Haplogroup N
59,000 Years Ago

↳ Haplogroup R
57,000 Years Ago

↳ Haplogroup U
47,000 Years Ago

↳ U5a2b arose around 8000 years ago - 11,500 Years Ago

Origin and Migrations of Haplogroup U5a2b

Your maternal line stems from a branch of U called U5a2b. Haplogroup U5a2b is a relatively young and uncommon subgroup of the European haplogroup U5. Members of U5a2b trace their maternal lines back to a woman who lived approximately 11,500 years ago, near the end of the Ice Age and the beginning of the our warmer climate era. For several thousand years, humans had survived the last great cold peak in a small number of more hospitable refuges in the south and the east of the continent. Then, around 14,000 years ago, the ice sheets covering the interior of the continent began to recede and human populations began to migrate back into the regions their ancestors had once roamed. As they spread out and thrived in the newly hospitable continent, new maternal lineages emerged, including U5a2b.

Today, members of U5a2b are scattered around the globe in the Northern Hemisphere, but aside from concentrations in a few isolated groups their frequency almost never rises above a small percentage of the population. U5a2b is somewhat concentrated among Poles, Russians, Belarusians, and Czechs, and had also been found in Mediterranean populations such as Italians and Tunisians.

Today, U5a2b is frequent among 23andMe customers.

A Silk Road Connection

Yu Hong
The Silk Road connected eastern and western Eurasia by land and by sea.
During the 6th century AD the Persian Empire controlled trade along the Silk Road through its Central Asian province of Sogdiana, providing a vital trade link between China and Europe. Evidence suggests there was a genetic connection as well. Researchers extracted DNA from the remains of a chieftain named Yu Hong, who was buried about 200 miles southwest of Beijing in 592 AD. His burial epitaph indicated that Yu Hong had Central Asian ancestry – and his DNA revealed an even more exotic background. Yu Hong's mitochondrial DNA belonged to the U5 haplogroup, a sure sign that he had European ancestors on his mother's side

Today, you share your haplogroup with all the maternal-line descendants of the common ancestor of U5a2b, including other 23andMe customers.

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