Haplogroup CF

Haplogroup CF, also known as CF-P143 and CT(xDE), is a human Y-chromosome DNA haplogroup. CF is defined by the SNP P143, and its existence and distribution are inferred from the fact that haplogroups descended from CF include most human male lineages in Eurasia, Oceania, and The Americas. CF descends from CT (CT-M168), and is the sibling of DE. CF has two basal branches, Haplogroup C and Haplogroup F.^[2]

Haplogroup CF
Possible time of origin	75,000-70,000 BP
Possible place of origin	Africa[1]
Ancestor	CT
Descendants	C, F
Defining mutations	P143

Distribution

• 
  Migration of Haplogroup C.
• 
  The geographical development and distribution of Haplogroup F.

There are, as yet, no confirmed cases of living individuals or human remains belonging to the basal, undivergent haplogroup CF*. In the year 2017, C-M217 (C2) & C-M130 were reported among males belonging to the Shan peoples, who are concentrated in central-east Burma (as well as neighboring parts of China, Laos and Thailand).^[3] However, the researchers involved (Brunelli et al.) did not rule out all other subclades of CF, such as haplogroup F, in these particular cases.^{[citation needed]} (In haplogroup F2 has previously been identified in the same geographical region.^[4])

Subclades

C

Main article: Haplogroup C (Y-DNA)

Haplogroup C is a subclade of haplogroup CF.

F

Main article: Haplogroup F (Y-DNA)

Haplogroup F is a subclade of haplogroup CF.

See also

Genetics

• Genetic genealogy
• Haplogroup
• Haplotype
• Human Y-chromosome DNA haplogroup
• Molecular phylogenetics
• Paragroup
• Subclade
• Y-chromosome haplogroups in populations of the world
• Y-DNA haplogroups by ethnic group
• Y-DNA haplogroups in populations of East and Southeast Asia
• Y-DNA haplogroups in populations of Oceania

Y-DNA C subclades

• Mega-Haplogroup CF
• Mega-Haplogroup CT
• C-M130
• C-M208
• C-M210
• C-M216
• C-M217
• C-M38
• C-M8
• C-M93
• C-P33
• C-P44

Y-DNA backbone tree