Tibetan Y-STR trait in the eleven regions of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.

Abstract excerpt

Y-Chromosomal short-tandem repeats (Y-STRs) could provide highly valuable information for forensic investigation and demographic studies. However, there is still no systematic Y-STR information on Tibetan as obtained from different regions of the broad Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. In this study, an analysis was conducted on 585 male individuals, classed into 3 different dialect branches as Ü-Tsang, Amdo, and Khams and...

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• Asian People
• Chromosomes, Human, Y
• Ethnicity
• Genetics, Population
• Haplotypes