Edited sentence: Citing ,  wrote that E1b1b1 (other wise known as E3B1 or E-M35) "arose in East Africa".However, she added that this haplogroup is "often incorrectly described as “African,” leaving a misimpression regarding the origin and complex history of this haplogroup", and that such misinformation about this haplogroup also continued to pervade the public and media at least until the time of writing in 2005