Table 1. Times to most recent common ancestors for each haplogroup, measured in ka, for each region.

Region	Na	J	J1	J1e	J2	E1b1b1
Armenia	4.4 2.0–9.6	48 25–100	34 19–69	19 10–39	34 19–69	40 18–92
Caucasus*	4.8 1.0–9.3	41 21–82	26 14–52	—	26 14–52	83.3 42–174
Iran	7.5 4.1–14	59 30–124	35 19–68	—	35 19–68	36 19–73
Jordan	4.1 1.5–9.3	38 21–76	28 16–54	21 12–40	28 16–54	32 18–62
Kuwait	2.2 0.6–6	47 25–96	24 12–51	17 8.8–36	24 12–51	—
Lebanon	1.8 0.6–5.9	41 24–78	31 18–58	19 11–38	33 20–62	32 17–64
Palestinians	1.4 0.5–3.7	40 23–75	31 18–58	25 14–46	32 19–60	31 18–57
SE Turkey	5.2 2.4–11	52 27–109	29 15–60	16 8.5–34	33 18–66	38 19–80
Syria	3.2 0.9–8.1	48 28–88	35 21–64	26 15–46	35 21–64	29 16–60
Turkey	6.9 3.5–13	50 28–96	32 18–63	10 4.2–22	34 19–65	32 18–65
Algeria	3.6 0.9–10	64 33–135	27 13–60	—	29 14–62	—
Egypt	3.6 1.1–8.7	53 28–109	29 15–60	20 11–40	29 15–60	—
Iberia	8.6 5.1–15	65 33–135	—	—	30 16–61	—
Libya	2.0 0.7–5.2	38 20–81	26 13–56	16 7.7–36	—	—
Morocco	2.0 0.6–9.2	49 25–106	33 17–69	25 13–50	—	—
Tunisia	2.4 0.7–6.4	—	—	—	32 16–72	—

N_a is the ancestral population size (population size at time exponential expansion started), measured in 1,000’s.

^*6 samples.