Analysis of Y chromosome STR haplotypes in the European part of Russia reveals high diversities but non-significant genetic distances between populations

International Journal of Legal Medicine

Volumn 122, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 219-223

  Roewer, Lutz ^a   Willuweit, Sascha ^a   Krüger, Carmen ^a   Nagy, Marion ^a   Rychkov, Sergey ^b   Morozowa, Irina ^b   Naumova, Oksana ^b   Schneider, Yuriy ^b   Zhukova, Olga ^b   Stoneking, Mark ^c   Nasidze, Ivan ^c  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b VAVILOV INSTITUTE OF GENERAL GENETICS   (Russian Federation)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

AMOVA; Haplotypes; Population database; Russian Federation; Y Chromosome STRs

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; DATA BASE; EUROPE; FORENSIC GENETICS; GENE LOCUS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; Y CHROMOSOME;

CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; DNA FINGERPRINTING; GENETICS, POPULATION; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; RUSSIA; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES;

EID: 42149195021     PISSN: 09379827     EISSN: 14371596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00414-007-0222-2     Document Type: Article

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