A5

Summary

Age: 16,938.8 ± 4,757.1; CI=95% (Behar et al., 2012b)
Origin: Asia
Variants: A8563G C11536T
FTDNA Tree: Link
Parent Branch: A
Descendant branch(s): A5a A5b A5c

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Haplogroup A5 is a branch on the maternal tree of human kind. The woman who founded this line lived between 12,200 and 21,700 years ago (Behar et al 2012b).

It was found in one study of the peoples of Taiwan (Ko et al., 2014).

So far, nobody from Geno 2 belongs to this lineage.

National Geographic Geno 2.0 Information

This information comes from the 2012 update of the National Geographic Genographic Project website.

Map

mtDNA Haplogroup A5 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
01	A5	8563 11536	Released 27 Aug 2008
02	A5	8563 11536	Released 14 Oct 2008
03	A5	8563 11536	Released 1 Mar 2009
04	A5	8563 11536	Released 10 May 2009
05	A5	8563 11536	Released 8 Jul 2009
06	A5	8563 11536	Released 28 Sep 2009
07	A5	8563 11536	Released 10 Nov 2009
08	A5	8563 11536	Released 21 Mar 2010
09	A5	8563 11536	Released 20 Jun 2010
10	A5	8563 11536	Released 10 Aug 2010
11	A5	8563 11536	Released 7 Feb 2011
12	A5	8563 11536	Released 20 Jul 2011
13	A5	8563 11536	Released 28 Dec 2011; Last Build to use the rCRS
14	A5	A8563G C11536T	Released 5 Apr 2012; First version to use the RSRS
15	A5	A8563G C11536T	Released 30 Sep 2012
16	A5	A8563G C11536T	Released 19 Feb 2014
17	A5	A8563G C11536T	Released 18 Feb 2016

mtDNA Haplogroup A5 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
Hap5011379	-	Ko et al., 2014	A5		-	A5:152	A5:1709, 5054C, 8260, 9145, 15442, 16126

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.
• Ko, A.M.S., Chen, C.Y., Fu, Q., Delfin, F., Li, M., Chiu, H.L., Stoneking, M. and Ko, Y.C. (2014). Early Austronesians: Into and Out Of Taiwan. American journal of human genetics, 94(3), 426-436.
• 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

The following members of the community offer paid consulting for those seeking help with mtDNA results. Inclusion on this list is not a recommendation or endorsement of any service.

• DNA Explorers – Robert Sliwinski
• Genetic Genealogy Consultant – Ugo Perego
• Your DNA Guide – Diahan Southard