Macrohaplogroup

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Noun
  1. 1
    A major haplogroup, especially one that is the head of a phylogeny

    "These are Fr2 in Haplogroup A1 of macrohaplogroup M [9 ], San2 in Haplogroup L1 [1 ], a Neandertal [56 ], and a Denisovan [57 ]."

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"These are Fr2 in Haplogroup A1 of macrohaplogroup M [9 ], San2 in Haplogroup L1 [1 ], a Neandertal [56 ], and a Denisovan [57 ]."

Etymology

From macro- + haplogroup.

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