Haplogroup HV (mtDNA)

In, Haplogroup HV is a  (mtDNA).

Haplogroup HV is believed to have expanded throughout Europe 20,000 years before present, before the advent of farming in Europe. Today, it is most common in Western Europe (and descendant populations).

Haplogroup HV derives from the (which in turn derives from ). HV is also the ancestral haplogroup to and.