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.
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.
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%.