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New binary polymorphisms reshape and increase resolution of the human Y chromosomal haplogroup tree.
Genome research - 1 May 2008
Karafet Tatiana M, Mendez Fernando L, Meilerman Monica B, Underhill Peter A, Zegura Stephen L, Hammer Michael F
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Markers on the non-recombining portion of the human Y chromosome continue to have applications in many fields including evolutionary biology, forensics, medical genetics, and genealogical reconstruction. In 2002, the Y Chromosome Consortium published a single parsimony tree showing the relationships among 153 haplogroups based on 243 binary markers and devised a standardized nomenclature system to name lineages...
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