Listed here are notable ethnic groups and native populations from the Oceania (Pacific Islands and Australia) and East Indonesia by human Y-chromosome DNA haplogroups based on relevant studies.
Population | Language | n | C1 | C* | K* [nb 1] | M | O | S | Others | Reference |
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Australian Aborigines | Australian Aboriginal | 108 | 60.2 | 6 | 22.2 | 0 | 0.9 | 0 | R=8, F=3 | Hudjashov 2007 [1] |
Australian Aborigines | Australian Aboriginal | 44 | __ | __ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 40.9 | R=6.8 others=52.3 | Karafet 2015 [2] |
Arnhem Land peoples | Arnhem Land languages | 60 | 53.3 | 10 | 30.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5.0 | Kayser 2002 [3] |
Western Desert peoples | Wati languages | 35 | 68.7 | 0 | 17.1 | 0 | 3.0 | 0 | 8.6 | Kayser 2002 [3] |
Alor | Oceanic, Papuan | 26 | 46.2 | 3.8 | 30.8 | 11.5 | 0 | 7.7 | 0 | Mona 2009 [4] |
Alor | Trans–New Guinea, Papuan | 13 | 38.5 | 30.7 | 23.1 | P=7.7 | Li, Hui 2008 [5] | |||
Pantar | Oceanic, Papuan | 26 | -- | -- | 19.2 | 46.2 | 15.4 | Karafet 2015 [2] | ||
Bali | Austronesian | 551 | -- | 1.8 | 1.1 | 0.7 | 83.8 | 0.4 | 12.2 | Karafet 2005 [6] |
Bougainville | Oceanic, Papuan | 75 | 1.3 | -- | 36.0 | 41.3 | 14.7 | 1.3 | F=5.3 | Scheinfeldt 2006 [7] |
Cenderawasih | Cenderawasih | 11 | 0 | 45.5 | 18.2 | 36.4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Li 2008 [8] |
Cook | Polynesian | 70 | 83.3 | -- | 7.5 | 0 | 4.6 | 0 | R=2.8 | Cox 2006 [9] |
Fiji | Fijian–Polynesian | 55 | -- | 3 | 41 | 15 | 15 | -- | Capelli 2001 [10] | |
Fiji | Fijian–Polynesian | 107 | 21.5 | 0.9 | 25.2 | 35.5 | 13.1 | 0 | 3.7 | Kayser 2006 [11] |
Flores | Austronesian | 71 | 39.4 | 23.9 | 11.3 | 2.8 | 8.5 | 12.7 | NO=1.4 | Mona 2009 [4] |
French Polynesia | Polynesian | 87 | -- | 53 | 8 | 0 | 37 | -- | Capelli 2001 [10] | |
Lesser Sunda Islands | Austronesian, Papuan | 344 | 47.7 | 14.2 | 10.5 | 4.4 | 11.6 | 11.0 | 0.6 | Mona 2009 [4] |
Maori | Polynesian | 54 | 42.6 | -- | 1.9 | -- | 5.6 | -- | 51.9 | Underhill 2001 [12] |
Melanesia | Papuan, Oceanic | 342 | -- | 17.2 | 32.5 | 25.4 | 6.4 | -- | -- | Capelli 2001 [10] |
Melanesia | Papuan, Oceanic | 400 | 12.5 | 0.2 | 8.7 | 57.0 | 8.7 | 12.5 | 0.2 | Kayser 2006 [11] |
Melanesia | Oceanic, Papuan | 1272 | -- | 9.4 | 33.1 | 42.1 | 7.4 | 6.2 | 1.9 | Scheinfeldt 2006 [7] |
Micronesia | Micronesian Polynesian | 32 | -- | 18.7 | 65.6 | 0 | 9.4 | -- | 6.2 | Hurles 2005 [13] |
Moluccas | Papuan | 34 | 14.7 | 8.8 | 17.6 | 20.6 | 17.7 | 20.6 | 0 | Kayser 2002 [3] |
New Britain | Oceanic, Papuan | 395 | 2.3 | 0 | 23.5 | 39.0 | 7.1 | 27.9 | 0 | Scheinfeldt 2006 [7] |
New Guinea | Papuan, Austronesian | 44 | 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 20.4 | 9.1 | 63.6 | F*=2.2 | Hurles 2005 [13] |
New Guinea | Papuan, Austronesian | 277 | 17.3 | 0.4 | 8.3 | 59.6 | 1.8 | 12.3 | P=0.4 | Scheinfeldt 2006 [7] |
Eastern New Guinea | Papuan | 62 | 12.9 | 1.6 | 11.3 | 32.2 | 6.4 | 33.8 | 1.6 | Kayser 2002 [3] |
Western New Guinea | Papuan | 183 | 16.9 | -- | 5.5 | 76.0 | 0.5 | 1.1 | 0 | Kayser 2002 [3] |
New Ireland | Oceanic, Papuan | 109 | 8.3 | 0 | 29.4 | 48.6 | 8.3 | 5.5 | 0 | Scheinfeldt 2006 [7] |
PNG coast | Papuan | 31 | 12.9 | 9.7 | 16.1 | 29.0 | 9.7 | 23.2 | P-M74=3.2 | Kayser 2002 [3] |
PNG Northern coast | Papuan | 16 | 18.8 | 18.8 | 25.0 | 12.5 | 6.3 | 0 | Kayser 2002 [3] | |
PNG Southern coast | Papuan | 15 | 6.7 | 0 | 6.7 | 46.7 | 13.3 | P-M74=6.7 | Kayser 2002 [3] | |
PNG highlands | Papuan | 38 | 3 | 0 | 10 | 32 | 3 | 53 | 0 | Kayser 2002 [3] |
PNG Eastern highlands | Papuan | 17 | 5.9 | 0 | 5.9 | 35.3 | 5.9 | 0 | Kayser 2002 [3] | |
PNG islands | Oceanic, Papuan | 685 | 4.5 | 0 | 21.9 | 41.3 | 7.4 | 24.1 | 0 | Scheinfeldt 2006 [7] |
West Papua (province) | Papuan, Austronesian | 133 | 44.4 | -- | 23.3 | 29.3 | 3.0 | 0 | 0 | Mona 2007 [14] |
Polynesia | Polynesian | 282 | -- | 53.5 | 4.6 | 1.4 | 26.6 | -- | 13.8 | Scheinfeldt 2006 [7] |
Polynesia | Polynesian | 441 | 37.2 | 0.2 | 17.9 | 11.6 | 27.9 | 0.2 | 5.0 | Kayser 2006 [11] |
Rapa Nui | Polynesian | 10 | 90 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | I=10 | Karafet 2010 [15] |
Samoa | Polynesian | 62 | 61.3 | -- | 3.2 | 3.2 | 25.8 | 1.6 | 4.8 | Kayser 2006 [11] |
Solomon | Oceanic | 32 | 0 | 0 | 59.4 | 9.4 | 28.1 | 3.1 | 0 | Cox 2006 [9] |
Sulawesi | Austronesian | 54 | 11.1 | 11.1 | 7.4 | 3.7 | 50.0 | 5.6 | F=5.6, R=3.7 | Karafet 2010 [15] |
Sulawesi | Austronesian | 177 | __ | __ | 5.7 | 1.1 | 63.8 | 5.1 | R=6.8, P=0.6, others=16.9 | Karafet 2015 [2] |
Sumba | Austronesian | 649 | __ | __ | MS*=4.5 | 5.5 | 19 | 16.2 | P=3, others=52.8 | Karafet 2015 [2] |
Tahiti | Polynesian | 24 | 66.7 | 0 | 4.2 | 0 | 29.2 | 0 | 0 | Karafet 2010 [15] |
Timor | Austronesian, Papuan | 509 | __ | __ | MS*=10.2 | 6.1 | 17 | 8.7 | P=11, others=47.4 | Karafet 2015 [2] |
East Timor | Austronesian, Papuan | 39 | 35.9 | 7.7 | 17.9 | 7.7 | 17.9 | 12.8 | 0 | Mona 2009 [4] |
Tonga | Polynesian | 55 | -- | 23 | 1 | 8 | 60 | -- | Capelli 2001 [10] | |
Trobriands | Oceanic | 53 | 9.4 | -- | 22.6 | 30.2 | 37.7 | 0 | 0 | Kayser 2002 [3] |
Tuvalu | Polynesian | 100 | 17 | -- | 36 | 0 | 45 | 0 | F=2 | Kayser 2006 [11] |
Vanuatu | Oceanic | 234 | -- | 17.5 | 40.6 | 29.5 | 4.3 | 6.4 | R=1.7 | Cox 2006 [9] |
Melanesians are the predominant and indigenous inhabitants of Melanesia, in an area stretching from New Guinea to the Fiji Islands. Most speak one of the many languages of the Austronesian language family or one of the many unrelated families of Papuan languages. There are several creoles of the region, such as Tok Pisin, Hiri Motu, Solomon Islands Pijin, Bislama, and Papuan Malay.
Haplogroup C is a major Y-chromosome haplogroup, defined by UEPs M130/RPS4Y711, P184, P255, and P260, which are all SNP mutations. It is one of two primary branches of Haplogroup CF alongside Haplogroup F. Haplogroup C is found in ancient populations on every continent except Africa and is the predominant Y-DNA haplogroup among males belonging to many peoples indigenous to East Asia, Central Asia, Siberia, North America and Australia as well as a some populations in Europe, the Levant, and later Japan.
Haplogroup D1 or D-M174 is a subclade of haplogroup D-CTS3946. This male haplogroup is found primarily in East Asia, Magar-ethnic Nepal and the Andaman Islands. It is also found regularly with lower frequency in Central Asia, Siberia and Mainland Southeast Asia, and, more rarely, in Europe and the Middle East.
Haplogroup E-M96 is a human Y-chromosome DNA haplogroup. It is one of the two main branches of the older and ancestral haplogroup DE, the other main branch being haplogroup D. The E-M96 clade is divided into two main subclades: the more common E-P147, and the less common E-M75.
Haplogroup E-V38, also known as E1b1a-V38, is a major human Y-chromosome DNA haplogroup. E-V38 is primarily distributed in Africa. E-V38 has two basal branches, E-M329 and E-M2. E-M329 is a subclade mostly found in East Africa. E-M2 is the predominant subclade in West Africa, Central Africa, Southern Africa, and the region of African Great Lakes; it also occurs at moderate frequencies in North Africa, West Asia, and Southern Europe.
Haplogroup K or K-M9 is a genetic lineage within human Y-chromosome DNA haplogroup. A sublineage of haplogroup IJK, K-M9, and its descendant clades represent a geographically widespread and diverse haplogroup. The lineages have long been found among males on every continent except Antarctica.
Haplogroup M, also known as M-P256 and Haplogroup K2b1b is a Y-chromosome DNA haplogroup. M-P256 is a descendant haplogroup of Haplogroup K2b1, and is believed to have first appeared between 32,000 and 47,000 years ago.
In human genetics, Haplogroup O-M268, also known as O1b, is a Y-chromosome DNA haplogroup. Haplogroup O-M268 is a primary subclade of haplogroup O-F265, itself a primary descendant branch of Haplogroup O-M175.
In human genetics, Haplogroup O-M119 is a Y-chromosome DNA haplogroup. Haplogroup O-M119 is a descendant branch of haplogroup O-F265 also known as O1a, one of two extant primary subclades of Haplogroup O-M175. The same clade previously has been labeled as O-MSY2.2.
Its phylogenetically closest relatives are found among the peoples of Japan, Central Asia, and the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal. It is more distantly related to the Haplogroup D*, whose sub-clades are common throughout Asia.
Haplogroup S-M230, also known as S1a1b, is a Y-chromosome DNA haplogroup. It is by far the most numerically significant subclade of Haplogroup S1a.
Haplogroup E-P147 is a human Y-chromosome DNA haplogroup. Haplogroup E-P147, along with the less common haplogroup E-M75, is one of the two main branches of the older haplogroup E-M96. The E-P147 clade is commonly observed throughout Africa and is divided into two subclades: the less common, haplogroup E-M132, and the more common, haplogroup E-P177.
Haplogroup E-P177 is a human Y-chromosome DNA haplogroup. E-P177 has two known subclades, which are haplogroup E-P2 and haplogroup E-P75.
Haplogroup E-P2, also known as E1b1, is a human Y-chromosome DNA haplogroup. E-P2 has two basal branches, E-V38 and E-M215. E-P2 had an ancient presence in East Africa and the Levant; presently, it is primarily distributed in Africa where it may have originated, and occurs at lower frequencies in the Middle East and Europe.
In human population genetics, Y-Chromosome haplogroups define the major lineages of direct paternal (male) lines back to a shared common ancestor in Africa. Men in the same haplogroup share a set of differences, or markers, on their Y-Chromosome, which distinguish them from men in other haplogroups. These UEPs, or markers used to define haplogroups, are SNP mutations. Y-Chromosome Haplogroups all form "family trees" or "phylogenies", with both branches or sub-clades diverging from a common haplogroup ancestor, and also with all haplogroups themselves linked into one family tree which traces back ultimately to the most recent shared male line ancestor of all men alive today, called in popular science Y Chromosome Adam.
The tables below provide statistics on the human Y-chromosome DNA haplogroups most commonly found among ethnolinguistic groups and populations from East and South-East Asia.
Haplogroup A-L1085, also known as haplogroup A0-T is a human Y-DNA haplogroup. It is part of the paternal lineage of almost all humans alive today. The SNP L1085 has played two roles in population genetics: firstly, most Y-DNA haplogroups have diverged from it and; secondly, it defines the undiverged basal clade A-L1085*.
Haplogroup S1a is a human Y-DNA haplogroup, defined by SNPs Z41335, Z41336, Z41337, Z41338, Z41339, Z41340, and Z41341.
Haplogroup C-B477, also known as Haplogroup C1b2, is a Y-chromosome haplogroup. It is one of two primary branches of Haplogroup C1b, one of the descendants of Haplogroup C1.
Haplogroup E-M329, also known as E1b1a2, is a human Y-chromosome DNA haplogroup. E-M329 is mostly found in East Africa.