Article
Y-chromosome mismatch distributions in Europe.
Molecular biology and evolution - 1 Jul 2001
Pereira L, Dupanloup I, Rosser Z H, Jobling M A, Barbujani G
Abstract excerpt
Ancient demographic events can be inferred from the distribution of pairwise sequence differences (or mismatches) among individuals. We analyzed a database of 3,677 Y chromosomes typed for 11 biallelic markers in 48 human populations from Europe and the Mediterranean area. Contrary to what is observed in the analysis of mitochondrial polymorphisms, Tajima's test was insignificant for most Y-chromosome samples,...
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