High-Resolution SNPs and Microsatellite Haplotypes Point to a Single, Recent Entry of Native American Y Chromosomes into the Americas

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 164-175

  Zegura, Stephen L ^a   Karafet, Tatiana M ^a,c   Zhivotovsky, Lev A ^b   Hammer, Michael F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b VAVILOV INSTITUTE OF GENERAL GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^c INSTITUTE OF CYTOLOGY AND GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Altai Mountains; Divergence dates; Native Americans; Single migration; Y chromosome SNPs and STRs

Indexed keywords

AMERICAN INDIAN; ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETIC LINE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETICS; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; Y CHROMOSOME;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; DNA PRIMERS; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GEOGRAPHY; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 1242284634     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msh009     Document Type: Article

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