In Indigenous Americans groups, R-M173 is the most common haplogroup after the various Q-M242, especially in North America in Ojibwe people at 79%, Chipewyan 62%, Seminole 50%, Cherokee 47%, Dogrib 40% and Papago 38%.
Human mitochondrial DNA haplogroup | haplogroup | Human Y-chromosome DNA haplogroup | Haplogroup O-P31 (Y-DNA) | Haplogroup O-P31 | Haplogroup O-M95 (Y-DNA) | Haplogroup O-M95 | Haplogroup |
They discovered a high levels of this haplogroup in the central and eastern Pyrenees.
Bryan Sykes in his book Blood of the Isles gives imaginative names to the founders or "clan patriarchs" of major British Y haplogroups, much as he did for mitochondrial haplogroups in his work The Seven Daughters of Eve.