Haplogroup L3 (mtDNA)

In, Haplogroup L3 is a.

Haplogroup L3 is confined to and emigrant African populations. It is most common in East Africa.

However, L3 is also the haplogroup from which the macro-haplogroups and  are believed to have arisen. These two haplogroups are ancestral to all haplogroups outside Africa, and are believed to represent the initial migration by modern humans.