Table 4.

mtDNA haplogroup counts for South Indian castes and major population groups

	Tamil Nadu				Andhra Pradesh			Major Geographic Groups
Haplogroup	Upper	NTS Upper	Middle	Lower	Upper	Middle	Lower	Europeans	E. Asians	S. Indians
M-lineages
M*	19	23	19	30	22	48	37	0	13	198
C	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
D	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	0
G	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1
Z	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
N-lineages
N*	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	2	3
W	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0
R	1	3	8	1	1	11	4	2	6	29
R5	3	0	0	0	1	1	6	0	0	11
J	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	6	0	1
T	1	0	0	0	0	2	1	5	0	4
HV	3	4	2	1	3	5	1	33	0	19
U	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5
U5	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1
U5a1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	1
U5a/b	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1
U2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
U2-K	4	1	9	2	2	8	1	0	0	27
U4	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
U7	2	4	4	0	3	2	1	0	0	16
U8b	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	0	0
U9	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	0	2
Total	41	37	43	34	33	80	54	57	28	322

(Lineages grouped by M or N superfamily; *could not be further resolved; see Materials and Methods for marker information.)