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Reduced Y-chromosome, but not mitochondrial DNA, diversity in human populations from West New Guinea.
American journal of human genetics - 1 Feb 2003
Kayser Manfred, Brauer Silke, Weiss Gunter, Schiefenhövel Wulf, Underhill Peter, Shen Peidong, Oefner Peter, Tommaseo-Ponzetta Mila, Stoneking Mark
Abstract excerpt
To investigate the paternal population history of New Guinea, 183 individuals from 11 regional populations of West New Guinea (WNG) and 131 individuals from Papua New Guinea (PNG) were analyzed at 26 binary markers and seven short-tandem-repeat loci from the nonrecombining part of the human Y chromosome and were compared with 14 populations of eastern and southeastern Asia, Polynesia, and Australia. Y-chromosomal...
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