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| Haplogroup R1b-L2 | |
|---|---|
| Possible time of origin | 4400 years before present |
| Coalescence age | 4400 years before present |
| Possible place of origin | Western Europe |
| Ancestor | R-M269 R1b-P312 R1b-U152 |
| Highest frequencies | Northern and Western Italians Swiss French Southwestern Germans |
R-L2 is a human Y-chromosome DNA haplogroup, characteristic of a part of the inhabitants of Italy and Western Europe in general. R-L2 is thought to have originated around the Alps or southern Rhine, additionally, due to R-L2 having split off of R1b-U152 relatively early and it being a major branch, R-L2 carriers were largely contemporary with R-U152 carriers leading to R-L2 also having multiple large and diverse branches, of which some are respectively linked to Etruscans, Italics and the Alpine Celts.
External links
- Haplogroup R-L2 and its descendants on YTree.net Archived 2021-03-09 at the Wayback Machine
References
- Boattini A, Martinez-Cruz B, Sarno S, Harmant C, Useli A, Sanz P, et al. (May 2013). "Uniparental Markers in Italy Reveal a Sex-Biased Genetic Structure and Different Historical Strata". PLOS ONE. 8 (5). e65441. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0065441.t001. PMC 3666984. PMID 23734255.