The most common maternal haplogroup among Finns is
H, as 41.5% of Finnish women belong to it. One in four carry the
haplogroup U5.<a href="
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Estonians and the
Sami people.<a href="
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hunter-gatherers that lived across large parts of Europe before the
early farmers appeared are outside the genetic variation of modern populations, but most similar to Finns.<a href="
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With regard to the Y-chromosome, the most common haplogroups of the Finns is
N1c, as it is carried by 58–64 percent of Finnish men.<a href="
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haplogroup N distributed across northern Eurasia and suggested to have entered Europe from Siberia.<a href="
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I1a (25 %),
R1a (4.3 %), and
R1b (3.5 %).<a href="
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