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- noun Plural form of
haplogroup .
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These can be used to classify male chromosomes into different groups called haplogroups which, to some extent, reflect a person's geographical ancestry.
Archive 2008-04-01 Jan 2008
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"haplogroups," that tend to relate to geographical areas.
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"haplogroups," that tend to relate to geographical areas.
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"haplogroups," that tend to relate to geographical areas.
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They call them haplogroups and haplotypes, which come back probabilities and percentages—and it works.
The Snow Whale John Minichillo 2011
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Sometimes haplogroups are referred to as the branches of the human genetic tree.
Shaking the Family Tree Buzzy Jackson 2010
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Scientists have identified over twenty and counting Y-DNA haplogroups and assigned each of them a letter or letters to differentiate them.
Shaking the Family Tree Buzzy Jackson 2010
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By analyzing the information from haplogroups, Y-DNA, and mtDNA, those clever geneticists have been able to trace the origins of human beings back to two genetically specific human beings who lived tens of thousands of years ago.
Shaking the Family Tree Buzzy Jackson 2010
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Groups of related haplotypes are bunched together as haplogroups and haplogroups help geneticists track the geographic diversity of human populations over time.
Shaking the Family Tree Buzzy Jackson 2010
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In the longest view of human history, people who lived in a particular geographical location, especially if they were isolated, tended to share similar genetic markers, thus similar haplogroups.
Shaking the Family Tree Buzzy Jackson 2010
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