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The geographic distribution of human Y chromosome variation.
Genetics - 1 Mar 1997
Hammer M F, Spurdle A B, Karafet T, Bonner M R, Wood E T, Novelletto A, Malaspina P, Mitchell R J, Horai S, Jenkins T, Zegura S L
Abstract excerpt
We examined variation on the nonrecombining portion of the human Y chromosome to investigate human evolution during the last 200,000 years. The Y-specific polymorphic sites included the Y Alu insertional polymorphism or "YAP" element (DYS287), the poly(A) tail associated with the YAP element, three point mutations in close association with the YAP insertion site, an A-G polymorphic transition (DYS271), and a...
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