postglacial recolonization

 Uncommon subhaplogroup pre*V tends to be scattered throughout Europe (and northwestern Africa)

 Haplogroup V attains two peaks of frequency: one situated in southwestern Europe and one in the Saami of northern Scandinavia.

 Geographical distributions and ages support the scenario that pre*V originated in Europe before the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), whereas the more recently derived haplogroup V arose in a southwestern European refugium soon after the LGM.

 The arrival of Haplogroup V in eastern/central Europe, however, occurred much later, possibly with (post-)Neolithic contacts.

 The distribution of haplogroup V mtDNAs in modern European populations would thus, at least in part, reflect the pattern of postglacial human recolonization from that refugium, affecting even the Saami.

See also

 mitochondrial HVS-I sequences
 western Eurasia
 northern Africa
 mtDNA Haplogroup V

• subhaplogroup pre*V
   Iberian refugium

References

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 Torroni A, Bandelt HJ, D’Urbano L, Lahermo P, Moral P, Sellitto D, Rengo C, Forster P, Savontaus ML, Bonne-Tamir B, Scozzari R. mtDNA analysis reveals a major late Paleolithic population expansion from southwestern to northeastern Europe. Am J Hum Genet. 1998 May;62(5):1137-52. PMID: 9545392