Haplogroup C-B477

Haplogroup C-B477
Possible place of originSahul Shelf
Ancestor(Grandparent)C1
DescendantsC1b2a-M38
C1b2b-M347
Defining mutationsB477
Highest frequenciesPapuan people, Indigenous Australians, Melanesian people, Polynesian people

Haplogroup C-B477, also known as Haplogroup C1b2, is a Y-chromosome haplogroup. It is one of two primary branches of Haplogroup C1b, one of the descendants of Haplogroup C1.

It is distributed in high frequency in Indigenous Australians, Papuan people, Melanesian people, and Polynesian people.