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Ghana: haplogroups

FamilyTreeDNA has 423 kits with a Y-DNA result and 14 kits with mtDNA (mitochondrial DNA). On the paternal line the most common are E-M191 — 36% and E-U175 — 20%. For mt that is fewer than 50, so those shares below are a rough guide only.

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2.5
Y-DNA · kits per 100,000 men
rank 85 of 123 among countries. About 17 million men (UN, 2023). A kit's country is the ancestor's homeland, not where the tester lives

FTDNA Discover holds about 120 more samples here that are not in the public tree, mostly from academic studies (estimate from the copy of 13 November 2026); this page is built from the public FTDNA tree.

Mitotree, the mt tree of FTDNA Discover, has about 182 more samples from here that the public mt tree lacks: mostly academic studies, GenBank among them (copy of 11 November 2026). This page is built from the public FTDNA tree.

Paternal line · Y-DNA

423 kits · 3 branches
Main branches of the Y tree. Each branch counts every kit in it and in its sub-branches; sub-branches are indented. Age is how many years ago the branch's common ancestor lived (TMRCA).
E-M2 (E1b1a)
398 · 94.1% 18k years
M191
152 · 35.9% 5,900 years
U175
83 · 19.6% 8,800 years
other
25 · 5.9%

Among the rest: A 3, B 3, R 3, O 1, I 1.

Maternal line · mtDNA

14 kits · 6 branches
Main mt-tree branches grouped by letter, sub-branches indented. Each branch counts every kit in it and in its sub-branches. Age is how many years ago the branch's common foremother lived, from FTDNA data where available.
L2'3'4'6
13 · 93% (13 of 14, 95% confidence interval: 69–99%) 97k years
L2a1
7 · 50% (7 of 14, 95% confidence interval: 27–73%) 15k years
L2a1a1
3 of 14 (3 of 14, 95% confidence interval: 8–48%) 6,100 years
L2a1-G143A
3 of 14 (3 of 14, 95% confidence interval: 8–48%)
L3
6 · 43% (6 of 14, 95% confidence interval: 21–67%) 66k years
L3e2
3 of 14 (3 of 14, 95% confidence interval: 8–48%) 15k years
other
1 of 14 (1 of 14, 95% confidence interval: 1–31%)

Migration paths of the characteristic branches #

Paths of the region's main characteristic branches, as modelled by FamilyTreeDNA Discover, on one calendar clock: in each year a branch stands where its ancestral line was. Grey is a stretch of path shared by several branches; the large marker is the branch itself.

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The time scale is logarithmic: the closer to the present, the longer a year takes.

The same branches are in the tree on this page.

Ghana: Y-DNA #

Distinctive branches

Branches found here far more often than worldwide: their share is more than 3× the world share. The multiplier is in brackets. Branches of at least 10 kits are included.

  • E-M2 E-M2 (E1b1a): 398 kits · 94.1% (95% confidence interval: 91–96%) (×63.2) 18k years
  • E-M191 E-M191: 152 kits · 35.9% (95% confidence interval: 32–41%) (×67.4) 5,900 years
  • E-M4895: 245 kits · 57.9% (95% confidence interval: 53–63%) (×51.3) 9,400 years
  • E-U174: 91 kits · 21.5% (95% confidence interval: 18–26%) (×51.5) 4,800 years
  • E-U175 E-U175: 83 kits · 19.6% (95% confidence interval: 16–24%) (×47.8) 8,800 years

Most similar countries

Countries whose mix of major branches looks most like this one. The number is similarity: 100% is the same mix, lower means less in common. Computed only for countries with 100+ kits.

0–2%3%4%5–9%10–90%Ghanaunder 100 kits
All 112 countries and regions by similarity
  1. Nigeria 90%
  2. Cameroon 79%
  3. Jamaica 53%
  4. South Africa 37%
  5. Dominican Republic 26%
  6. United States (Native American) 20%
  7. Puerto Rico 17%
  8. Bahrain 17%
  9. Saudi Arabia 16%
  10. United States 15%
  11. Oman 14%
  12. Libya 14%
  13. Kuwait 14%
  14. Sudan 13%
  15. Cuba 12%
  16. Morocco 12%
  17. Qatar 12%
  18. Algeria 11%
  19. United Arab Emirates 11%
  20. Colombia 10%
  21. Egypt 10%
  22. Brazil 10%
  23. Israel 9%
  24. Palestine 8%
  25. Japan 8%
  26. Yemen 8%
  27. China 7%
  28. Tunisia 7%
  29. Uzbekistan 7%
  30. Mexico 6%
  31. Iraq 6%
  32. Somalia 6%
  33. Spain 6%
  34. New Zealand 5%
  35. Kazakhstan 5%
  36. Syria 5%
  37. Sri Lanka 5%
  38. Vietnam 5%
  39. Tajikistan 5%
  40. Portugal 5%
  41. Lebanon 5%
  42. Philippines 5%
  43. Canada 5%
  44. Mongolia 5%
  45. Romania 4%
  46. Italy 4%
  47. Belgium 4%
  48. Australia 4%
  49. Jordan 4%
  50. Greece 4%
  51. Lithuania 4%
  52. South Korea 4%
  53. India 4%
  54. Indonesia 4%
  55. United Kingdom 4%
  56. Russia 4%
  57. Austria 4%
  58. France 4%
  59. Ukraine 4%
  60. Hungary 3%
  61. England 3%
  62. Chile 3%
  63. Belarus 3%
  64. Latvia 3%
  65. Azerbaijan 3%
  66. Scotland 3%
  67. Afghanistan 3%
  68. Isle of Man 3%
  69. Germany 3%
  70. Georgia 3%
  71. Slovakia 3%
  72. Serbia 3%
  73. Switzerland 3%
  74. Denmark 3%
  75. Turkey 3%
  76. Iran 3%
  77. Netherlands 3%
  78. Poland 3%
  79. Croatia 3%
  80. Wales 3%
  81. Czech Republic 2%
  82. Ireland 2%
  83. Bulgaria 2%
  84. Moldova 2%
  85. Slovenia 2%
  86. Albania 2%
  87. Italy (Sicily) 2%
  88. Northern Ireland 2%
  89. Luxembourg 2%
  90. Bosnia and Herzegovina 2%
  91. Norway 1%
  92. Argentina 1%
  93. Tatarstan 1%
  94. Montenegro 1%
  95. Bashkortostan 1%
  96. Dagestan 1%
  97. Iceland 1%
  98. England (Cornish) 1%
  99. Chuvashia 1%
  100. Sweden 1%
  101. Macedonia 1%
  102. Armenia 1%
  103. Peru 1%
  104. Chechnya 1%
  105. Finland 1%
  106. Pakistan 1%
  107. Estonia 1%
  108. Mordovia 1%
  109. Adygea 1%
  110. Karelia 0%
  111. Orstkhoy (Aosta Valley in FTDNA) 0%
  112. Ingushetia 0%
YFull

The same country on YFull #

The same country at the second company, YFull. Its samples are placed on the FTDNA tree by shared mutations, so the branches are comparable. FTDNA share on the left, YFull on the right, then the difference in percentage points. Republics and other sub-regions are taken out of the country, as at FTDNA. Starred branches are nearly empty at YFull: every test there is whole-genome and reaches the fine branches. Only YFull customers (YF number) are counted, no ancient DNA. YFull data of 2026-11-02.

Y-DNA

YFull has fewer than 30 samples from this country, too few to compare. 2 samples on YFull

mtDNA

YFull has fewer than 30 samples from this country, too few to compare. 3 samples on YFull

0%
Y-DNA · on leaves
share of kits that reached the finest branch of the tree. The rest stopped at a broad branch: their test was not detailed enough.
1%
Big Y
rough share of kits with a Big Y test, a full read of the Y chromosome. It is estimated from the branches where the region's kits sit, so it is an estimate, not a count.

Data on this page: FamilyTreeDNA Y tree, 12 November 2026: 423 kits; FamilyTreeDNA mtDNA tree, 11 November 2026: 14 kits; YFull Y tree, 2 November 2026: 2 samples; YFull mtDNA tree, 2 November 2026: 3 samples.

How to cite: ftdnastat, "Ghana: Y-DNA and mtDNA haplogroups", https://ftdnastat.github.io/en/c/ghana/, data of 2026-11-14, build 20261114-18dba71.

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