Haplogroup P is a descendant of Haplogroup R. Today, P is most commonly found in Oceania, especially in Papuans, Melanesians, indigenous Australians,[3] It's 1.4% in mainstream Filipinos but 1.13% in Luzon, 1.78% in Visayas, 1.43% in Mindanao.

[4] It is much higher in Sub-Filipinos groups, 6.67% in Bugkalot and 11.2% in Maranao.

[5] It was found in the Philippines Negrito Aeta of Bataan at 40%.

This phylogenetic tree of haplogroup P subclades is based on the paper by Mannis van Oven and Manfred Kayser Updated comprehensive phylogenetic tree of global human mitochondrial DNA variation[2] and subsequent published research.

Phylogenetic tree of human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroups