Article
A Y-associated allele is shared among a few ethnic groups of Asia.
The Japanese journal of human genetics - 1 Sept 1994
Lin S J, Tanaka K, Leonard W, Gerelsaikhan T, Dashnyam B, Nyamkhishig S, Hida A, Nakahori Y, Omoto K, Crawford M H
Abstract excerpt
In our previous study, both of Y-associated alleles, Y1 and Y2, were detected in Japanese and Koreans, but only the Y1 allele was detected in each of other populations including Chinese in both Beijin and Guangzhou areas, Caucasians, Africans, and Jewish. In the present study, these observations were extended to other ethnic groups in East Asia. Evenks in central Siberia and Khalkhs in Mongolia had only the Y1...
Topics
- Alleles
- Asia
- Ethnicity
- Female
- Humans
- Male
- Y Chromosome