The large height of Gravettian men is believed to be linked in part to a group of genes called the Y haplogroup I-M170. A haplotype is a group of genes that are passed down together from one ...

Haplogroup I, defined by M170, is the prevailing Y chromosome group through Croatian mainland and islands with the highest frequency (49% on average) reported in Europe so far.

More than 70% of Herzegovinian men have the I-M170 haplogroup. Just over 50% of the male population of Bosnia and Herzegovina as a whole have the haplogroup.

Haplogroup R-M269 represents 20.8% of the Sardinian Y chromosomes, which is the lowest frequency in Western Europe (50–80%). 30 On the contrary, haplogroup I-M170 shows the highest incidence (41 ...