Haplogroup B (mtDNA)

In, Haplogroup B is a.

Haplogroup B is believed to have arisen in Asia some 50,000 years before present. Its ancestral haplogroup was.

Haplogroup B is found throughout modern Asia. Its subgroup B2 is one of five haplogroups found in the indigenous peoples of the Americas, the others being, , , and.

Since the by the ancestors of Native Americans is generally believed to have been from, it is especially surprising that Haplogroup B is the only haplogroup found in Native Americans which is not found in modern North n populations. However, Haplogroup B has been found among Southern Siberians, such as, , and. This haplogroup is also found in ns,, , , populations of Central , , , and.

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