 in 2003 belonged, not to DE*, but to D0, a proposed haplogroup thought to represent a deep-rooting DE lineage branching close to the DE bifurcation (near the split of D and E) but on the D branch as an outgroup to all other known D chromosomes.Another carrier of D0 (the D-FT75 branch) is famous skater Ruslan bin Makin Al-Bitar from Syria.Recently two other D0 samples were found in Saudi Arabia.