Sequence Variation in Four Y Chromosome Genes

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“Population genetic implications from sequence variation in four Y chromosome genes”
Shen, P., Wang, F., Underhill, P. A., Franco, C., Yang, W.-H., Roxas, A., Sung, R., Lin, A. A., Hyman, R. A., Vollrath, D., Davis, R. W., Cavalli-Sforza, L. L., and Oefner, P. J.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Science USA, 2000, volume 97, pages 7354-7359

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Nat Genet. 2000 Nov;26(3):358-61.


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Nat Genet. 2000 Nov;26(3):253-4.

Y chromosome sequence variation and the history of human populations.

Underhill PA, Shen P, Lin AA, Jin L, Passarino G, Yang WH, Kauffman E, Bonne-Tamir B, Bertranpetit J, Francalacci P, Ibrahim M, Jenkins T, Kidd JR, Mehdi SQ, Seielstad MT, Wells RS, Piazza A, Davis RW, Feldman MW, Cavalli-Sforza LL, Oefner PJ.

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.