[6][7] Haplogroup V has been observed at higher than average levels among Cantabrian people (15%) of northern Iberia,[8] and among the adjacent Basque (10.4%).
It is mainly concentrated among the Tuareg inhabiting the Gorom-Gorom area in Burkina Faso (21%),[10] Sahrawi in the Western Sahara (17.9%),[11] and Berbers of Matmata, Tunisia (16.3%).
[15] Haplogroup V7 was found in representative Maykop culture samples in the excavations conducted by Alexei Rezepkin.
[17][18] Haplogroup V has also been found among Iberomaurusian specimens dating from the Epipaleolithic at the Taforalt prehistoric site 14,000 years BP.
[19] Haplogroup V has also been found among Somogyvár-Vinkovci culture specimens dating from the Bronze Age from Western Hungary https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.02.03.478968v1.full.pdf This phylogenetic tree of haplogroup V 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.