Haplogroup A (mtDNA)

In, Haplogroup A is a.

Haplogroup A is believed to have arisen in Asia some 60,000 years before present. Its ancestral haplogroup was.

Haplogroup A is found throughout modern Asia. Its subgroup A1 is found in northern and central Asia, while its subgroup A2 is found in and is also one of five haplogroups found in the, the others being , , , and.

The mummy "" of Peru, also called the "Ice Maiden", has been shown to belong to mitochondrial haplogroup A.

In his popular book , named the originator of this mtDNA haplogroup Aiyana.