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1: Nat Genet. 2000 Nov;26(3):358-61.Click here to read Links
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Nat Genet. 2000 Nov;26(3):253-4.

Y chromosome sequence variation and the history of human populations.

Department of Genetics, Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA.under@stanford.edu

Binary polymorphisms associated with the non-recombining region of the human Y chromosome (NRY) preserve the paternal genetic legacy of our species that has persisted to the present, permitting inference of human evolution, population affinity and demographic history. We used denaturing high-performance liquid chromatography (DHPLC; ref. 2) to identify 160 of the 166 bi-allelic and 1 tri-allelic site that formed a parsimonious genealogy of 116 haplotypes, several of which display distinct population affinities based on the analysis of 1062 globally representative individuals. A minority of contemporary East Africans and Khoisan represent the descendants of the most ancestral patrilineages of anatomically modern humans that left Africa between 35,000 and 89,000 years ago.

PMID: 11062480 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]