Anthro-inclined
Regular Member
i have come across an interesting subclade of Haplogroup F. It is Haplogroup F-P96, it is defined by seven SNP's and the really interesting part is it is only found in western Europe ( Germany, Netherlands, Switzerland and France). Haplogroup F is thought to have originated in southwest or south Asia 50000 ybp. My hypothesis is that this particular subclade represents an extremely early branch off from F and a migration from the Middle East into Europe, possibly entering with the Aurignacian culture, and pre-dating Haplogroup I in Europe. Also, i would like to point out that F seemed to be more frequent in Europe in the Mesolithic, as 2 ancient DNA studies have yielded Haplogroup F. Please give me your thoughts on this and if you think it seems plausible.