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A predominantly neolithic origin for Y-chromosomal DNA variation in North Africa.
American journal of human genetics - 1 Aug 2004
Arredi Barbara, Poloni Estella S, Paracchini Silvia, Zerjal Tatiana, Fathallah Dahmani M, Makrelouf Mohamed, Pascali Vincenzo L, Novelletto Andrea, Tyler-Smith Chris
Abstract excerpt
We have typed 275 men from five populations in Algeria, Tunisia, and Egypt with a set of 119 binary markers and 15 microsatellites from the Y chromosome, and we have analyzed the results together with published data from Moroccan populations. North African Y-chromosomal diversity is geographically structured and fits the pattern expected under an isolation-by-distance model. Autocorrelation analyses reveal an...
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