Haplogroup motifs

Notes

• Add 16000 to HVS-I positions.  These are transitions from the reference sequences (indicated by "CRS") unless a base is explicitly indicated.  Positions in italics are outside the sequence reported in Tables A and B but were assayed in most samples.
• A selection of coding-region mutations is shown which can be assayed by RFLP analysis. The haplogroup U and haplogroup pre-HV mutations +12308HinfI and +11718HaeIII, respectively, require mismatched primers to generate the restriction sites.
• Note that the African L1 notation is due for revision, given recent information on the root of the human mtDNA phylogeny.  L1 is not a clade in the present scheme.
• Some indication of the level of a haplogroup in the hierarchy of haplogroups is provided by its name, as described in Richards et al. 1998 and Macaulay et al. 1999.  However, this is not always the case.  So to give an indication of the level, we use a “>” notation here.  A haplogroup with n >’s is a subclade of the first haplogroup above it in the list with n-1 >’s.  Since African L1/L2 remains to be expounded, we do not indicate the branching order there.
• The clade 126-362 is called pre-HV in the paper.  It is in fact a sub-clade within the clade pre-HV (which incorporates HV as well).  Hence it might more precisely be called (pre-HV)1.  However, at the risk of confusion, we spare the reader this grotesque construction.