Haplogroup pre-HV (mtDNA)

In, Haplogroup pre-HV (also known as Haplogroup R0 ) is a  (mtDNA).

Haplogroup pre-HV occurs frequently in the (especially in ) and in East Africa. Its greater variety in the Middle East suggests it originated there and spread back to Africa later.

Haplogroup pre-HV derives from the. It is also an ancestral haplogroup to (and therefore to  and ).