Mitochondrial & ancestry

Mitochondria carry their own small genome, and the Y chromosome its own lineage. This area explains mitochondrial variants as well as maternal and paternal ancestry via haplogroups.

3 articles

• mtDNA variantsbcftools (mpileup | call, chrM, haploid)Variants, heteroplasmy and the limits of mtDNA analysis.
• mtDNA haplogroupsHaplogrep 3The maternal line as a position in the worldwide tree.
• Y haplogroupbcftools (ISOGG Y-SNP-Marker)The paternal line from the Y chromosome.