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Haplogroup W (mtDNA)
Introduction
In human genetics, Haplogroup W is a human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroup.
Haplogroup W appears in the western Ural Mountains and the eastern Baltic, though it is also found in India as well as Spain, Finland, Poland, Iran, Pakistan and Thailand[1]. Its ancestral haplogroup was Haplogroup N.