Ghana: summary

FamilyTreeDNA holds for Ghana: 423 kits with a Y-DNA result and 14 kits with mtDNA. On the paternal line the most common are E-M2 (E1b1a) — 36%, E-U174 — 22% and E-U175 — 20%. For mt that is fewer than 50, so those shares below are a rough guide only.

Detailed pages for each line are linked below the summaries.

Paternal line · Y-DNA

n=423 · 3 branches shown

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

Ghana: Y-DNA details →

Maternal line · mtDNA

n=14 · 6 branches shown

Most common mt-tree branches, shortened to the form U5a or H13a. Age is how many years ago the branch's common foremother lived, from FTDNA data where available.

L2a

7 · 50.0% 76k years

L3e

3 · 21.4% 36k years

L3b

1 · 7.1% 24k years

L3f

1 · 7.1% 52k years

L3d

1 · 7.1% 28k years

K1c

1 · 7.1% 16k years

Ghana: mtDNA details →

Each colour is one of the eight most common macro-haplogroups worldwide (the first letter of the haplogroup, such as R or J). Everything else is grey.RIJENGQTother

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.

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.