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Paternal population history of East Asia: sources, patterns, and microevolutionary processes.
American journal of human genetics - 1 Sept 2001
Karafet T, Xu L, Du R, Wang W, Feng S, Wells R S, Redd A J, Zegura S L, Hammer M F
Abstract excerpt
Asia has served as a focal point for human migration during much of the Late Pleistocene and Holocene. Clarification of East Asia's role as a source and/or transit point for human dispersals requires that this region's own settlement history be understood. To this end, we examined variation at 52 polymorphic sites on the nonrecombining portion of the Y chromosome (NRY) in 1,383 unrelated males, representing 25...
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