An unbiased resource of novel SNP markers provides a new chronology for the human y chromosome and reveals a deep phylogenetic structure in Africa

Genome Research

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 535-544

  Scozzari, Rosaria ^a   Massaia, Andrea ^a   Trombetta, Beniamino ^a   Bellusci, Giovanna ^b   Myres, Natalie M ^c,d   Novelletto, Andrea ^b   Cruciani, Fulvio ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^c Ancestry   (United States)

^d Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DDX3Y PROTEIN; DNA FRAGMENT; PROTEIN; RPS4Y1 PROTEIN; TMSB4Y PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; USP9Y PROTEIN; UTY PROTEIN; ZFY PROTEIN;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ALLELE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; CHROMOSOME; CHRONOLOGY; CODON; CPG ISLAND; DNA SEQUENCE; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FOSSIL; GENE POOL; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HOME RANGE; HUMAN; INDEL MUTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MISSENSE MUTATION; MUTATION RATE; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION GENETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURIFYING SELECTION; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; Y CHROMOSOME;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; MUTATION RATE; MUTATION, MISSENSE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SELECTION, GENETIC; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84895510940     PISSN: 10889051     EISSN: 15495469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/gr.160788.113     Document Type: Article

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