Map of Haplogroup R1a of Y-DNA - - Regional Distribution and Percentages - Image to study Genetic and Racial Evolution in Western Europe

Map of Haplogroup R1a of Y-DNA - - Regional Distribution and Percentages - Image to study Genetic and Racial Evolution in Western Europe

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R1a is a Y-chromosome haplogroup - It is believed by some scientists that all males that have this haplogroup in their Y-Chromosome are descendants of a few men that wintered the Last Ice Age or Last Maximum Glaciation in Ukraine, the Black Sea or a place near these areas.

Others dispute this theory and vote for an Eastern Origin. Some believe that the Indoeuropean or the "Aryans" had this haplogroup, but the same existence of the "Aryans" is disputed. It is possessed by some White Looking Populations in the North of India.

Haplogroup R1a is "currently found in central and western Asia, India, and in Slavic populations of Eastern Europe". It has been found in high frequency at both extremes of its range:

In the east, in the extreme north of India, for example among the Kashmiri Pandits, 72% of male lineages[2] have been observed in this lineage; while further to the north, in Central Asia, the Ishkashimi have been tested as 68%, and the Tajik/Khojant 64%. In the western extreme of the central range of R1a, around 50% of male lines amongst Sorbs, Poles, Belarusians, Hungarians and Ukrainians have consistently proven to be R1a positive in various surveys, with slightly lower frequencies being found in mainland Croatia, Slovenia and amongst Greek Macedonians.

You can find wonderful Information about haplogroup R1a in this page of the Wikipedia Encyclopedia :

Haplogroup R1a (Y-DNA) in Wikipedia)

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