Haplogroup R1b-L2

R-L2 is a human Y-chromosome DNA haplogroup, characteristic of a part of the inhabitants of Italy and Western Europe in general. R-L2 is thought to have originated around the Alps or southern Rhine, additionally, due to R-L2 having split off of R1b-U152 relatively early and it being a major branch, R-L2 carriers were largely contemporary with R-U152 carriers leading to R-L2 also having multiple large and diverse branches, of which some are respectively linked to Etruscans, Italics and the Alpine Celts.^[2][3]

Haplogroup R1b-L2
Possible time of origin	4400 years before present
Coalescence age	4400 years before present
Possible place of origin	Western Europe
Ancestor	R-M269 R1b-P312 R1b-U152
Highest frequencies	Northern and Western Italians[1] Swiss French Southwestern Germans

External links

• Haplogroup R-L2 and its descendants on YTree.net Archived 2021-03-09 at the Wayback Machine