MSY2: A slowly evolving minisatellite on the human Y chromosome which provides a useful polymorphic marker in Chinese populations

Gene

Volumn 244, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 29-33

  Bao, Weidong ^a,b   Zhu, Suling ^a,b   Pandya, Arpita ^a   Zerjal, Tatiana ^a   Xu, Jiujin ^b   Shu, Qunfang ^b   Du, Ruofu ^b   Yang, Huanming ^b   Tyler Smith, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

Author keywords

Ape; DNA polymorphism; Human diversity; Human evolution; Male lineage

Indexed keywords

DNA MINISATELLITE;

APE; ARTICLE; CHINESE; DNA DETERMINATION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; EVOLUTION; GENE LOCATION; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; Y CHROMOSOME;

ALLELES; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CELL LINE; CHINA; DNA; DNA PROBES; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKERS; HUMANS; MALE; MINISATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PAN TROGLODYTES; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PONGO PYGMAEUS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; VARIATION (GENETICS); Y CHROMOSOME;

ALOCASIA MACRORRHIZOS; PAN (APE);

EID: 0033952762     PISSN: 03781119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-1119(00)00021-4     Document Type: Article

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