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Unexpected NRY chromosome variation in Northern Island Melanesia.
Molecular biology and evolution - 1 Aug 2006
Scheinfeldt Laura, Friedlaender Françoise, Friedlaender Jonathan, Latham Krista, Koki George, Karafet Tatyana, Hammer Michael, Lorenz Joseph
Abstract excerpt
To investigate the paternal population history of populations in Northern Island Melanesia, 685 paternally unrelated males from 36 populations in this region and New Guinea were analyzed at 14 regionally informative binary markers and 7 short tandem repeat (STR) loci from the nonrecombining portion of the Y chromosome. Three newly defined binary markers (K6-P79, K7-P117, and M2-P87) aided in identifying...
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