Male dominance rarely skews the frequency distribution of Y chromosome haplotypes in human populations

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 33, 2008, Pages 11645-11650

  Lansing, J Stephen ^a,b   Watkins, Joseph C ^b   Hallmark, Brian ^a   Cox, Murray P ^a,c   Karafet, Tatiana M ^a   Sudoyo, Herawati ^d   Hammer, Michael F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b University of Arizona   (United States)

^c SANTA FE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d EIJKMAN INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

Cultural evolution; Indonesia; Neutral theory; Red Queen; Selection

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; DOMINANCE BEHAVIOR; DOMINANT INHERITANCE; FERTILITY; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC TRAIT; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; MALE; MIGRATION; NEUTRAL GENE THEORY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; Y CHROMOSOME;

CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION; PROBABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 50149114924     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0710158105     Document Type: Article

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