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GENETICISTS IDENTIFY NEW HAPLOGROUP

team of scientists that includes genetic genealogist Roberta Estes <> has identified a new mitochondrial (mtDNA) haplogroup. <> describes the new haplogroup, L7, as “a 100,000-year-old maternal human lineage” that was “previously misclassified in the literature.”

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