Summary
Age: 17,349.2 ± 4,538.5; CI=95% (Behar et al., 2012b)
Origin: Tibetan Plateau
Variants: C9650T A16293c
FTDNA Tree: Link
Parent Branch: A
Descendant branch(s): A11a A11b
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Haplogroup A11 is an East Asian branch on the maternal tree of human kind. The woman who founded this line lived between 12,800 and 21,900 years ago (Behar et al., 2012b).
Published studies include one person from this lineage who is not one of its two daughter branches. They are from Shannan. (Qin et al., 2010)
Geno 2 data does not have a participant from this line.
This line was likely born in the Tibetan Plateau based on the origins for its daughter lines.
National Geographic Geno 2.0 Information
This information comes from the 2012 update of the National Geographic Genographic Project website.
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Age: About 15,000 Years Ago
Origin: Asia
Blurb: This lineage was born in East Asia just before the last glacial maximum began. It is most common to the peoples of the Himalaya Mountains.Author: Rebekah A. Canada | Copyright: National Geographic
mtDNA Haplogroup A11 Phylotree History
Phylotree.org is the maternal (mtDNA) tree of humanity. It is maintained by Dr. Mannis Van Oven. Each build is a major update to the tree. The current build is #17.
Build# | Called | Variants (Mutations) | Notes |
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08 | A11 | 9650 16293C | Released 21 Mar 2010 |
09 | A11 | 9650 16293C | Released 20 Jun 2010 |
10 | A11 | 9650 16293C | Released 10 Aug 2010 |
11 | A11 | 9650 16293C | Released 7 Feb 2011 |
12 | A11 | 9650 16293C | Released 20 Jul 2011 |
13 | A11 | 9650 16293C | Released 28 Dec 2011; Last Build to use the rCRS |
14 | A11 | C9650T A16293c | Released 5 Apr 2012; First version to use the RSRS |
15 | A11 | C9650T A16293c | Released 30 Sep 2012 |
16 | A11 | C9650T A16293c | Released 19 Feb 2014 |
17 | A11 | C9650T A16293c | Released 18 Feb 2016 |
mtDNA Haplogroup A11 Data Sources
GenBank Samples
GenBank is a database of genetic sequence data. It is run by the United States National Institute of Health. It serves as the main repository for mtDNA full sequence profiles. Samples come both from published academic literature and donations from genetic genealogy community members. In addition to GenBank samples, listings below may include other samples published but not submitted to GenBank such as those from the HapMap project.
Note: GenBank results currently use Phylotree build 16. I am working on changing results over to build 17.
Hg ID | Origin | Publication | Hg BLD16 | Hg BLD17 | Hg YFull | Missing Variants | Additional Variants |
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Hap5012411 | - | Qin et al. 2010 | A11 | - | A11:663 | A11:186, 309.1C, 315.1C, 523-524d, 750, 4901, 13638, 14110, 14527, 16234, 16318T, 16519 |
Sources & Resources
Related Sources
- Behar, D.M., van Oven, M., Rosset, S., Metspalu, M., Loogväli, E.L., Silva, N.M., Kivisild, T., Torroni, A. and Villems, R. (2012). A “Copernican” reassessment of the human mitochondrial DNA tree from its root. American journal of human genetics, 90(4), 675-684.
- Fan, L., & Yao, Y. G. (2011). MitoTool: a web server for the analysis and retrieval of human mitochondrial DNA sequence variations. Mitochondrion, 11(2), 351-356.
- Fan, L., & Yao, Y. G. (2013). An update to MitoTool: using a new scoring system for faster mtDNA haplogroup determination. Mitochondrion, 13(4), 360-363.
- Qin, Z., Yang, Y., Kang, L., Yan, S., Cho, K., Cai, X., Lu, Y., Zheng, H., Zhu, D., Fei, D. and Li, S. (2010). A mitochondrial revelation of early human migrations to the Tibetan Plateau before and after the last glacial maximum. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 143(4), 555-569.
- Van Oven, M., & Kayser, M. (2009). Updated comprehensive phylogenetic tree of global human mitochondrial DNA variation. Human mutation, 30(2), E386-E394.
Additional Resources
- Ian Logan’s mtDNA Pages
- Ian Logan’s Instructions for mtGenome Genbank Donation
- James Lick’s mtDNA Utility
- The FTDNA Haplogroup Project for Haplogroup A2
- The Wikipedia Article for Haplogroup A
mtDNA Consultants
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Keywords
Peoples: | Places: Tibetan Plateau
Last Updated: Last updated: September 26, 2018 at 5:21 am