The dual origin and Siberian affinities of Native American Y chromosomes

JT Lell, RI Sukernik, YB Starikovskaya, B Su… - The American Journal of …, 2002 - cell.com
The Y chromosomes of 549 individuals from Siberia and the Americas were analyzed for 12
biallelic markers, which defined 15 haplogroups. The addition of four microsatellite markers …

Network analyses of Y-chromosomal types in Europe, northern Africa, and western Asia reveal specific patterns of geographic distribution

P Malaspina, F Cruciani, BM Ciminelli… - The American Journal of …, 1998 - cell.com
In a study of 908 males from Europe, northern Africa, and western Asia, the variation of four
Y-linked dinucleotide microsatellites was analyzed within three" frames" that are defined by …

A pre-Columbian Y chromosome-specific transition and its implications for human evolutionary history.

PA Underhill, L Jin, R Zemans… - Proceedings of the …, 1996 - National Acad Sciences
A polymorphic C--> T transition located on the human Y chromosome was found by the
systematic comparative sequencing of Y-specific sequence-tagged sites by denaturing high …

The phylogeography of Brazilian Y-chromosome lineages

DR Carvalho-Silva, FR Santos, J Rocha… - The American Journal of …, 2001 - cell.com
We examined DNA polymorphisms in the nonrecombining portion of the Y-chromosome to
investigate the contribution of distinct patrilineages to the present-day white Brazilian …

Y-chromosome biallelic polymorphisms and Native American population structure

MC Bortolini, FM Salzano, CHD Bau… - Annals of human …, 2002 - cambridge.org
It has been proposed that women had a higher migration rate than men throughout human
evolutionary history. However, in a recent study of South American natives using mtDNA …

Distribution of Y chromosomes among native North Americans: a study of Athapaskan population history

R Singh Malhi, A Gonzalez‐Oliver… - American Journal of …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
In this study, 231 Y chromosomes from 12 populations were typed for four diagnostic single
nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) to determine haplogroup membership and 43 Y …

Autosomal, mtDNA, and Y-chromosome diversity in Amerinds: pre-and post-Columbian patterns of gene flow in South America

NR Mesa, MC Mondragón, ID Soto, MV Parra… - The American Journal of …, 2000 - cell.com
To evaluate sex-specific differences in gene flow between Native American populations from
South America and between those populations and recent immigrants to the New World, we …

The Geographic Distribution of Human Y Chromosome Variation

MF Hammer, AB Spurdle, T Karafet, MR Bonner… - Genetics, 1997 - academic.oup.com
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 …

Out of Africa and back again: nested cladistic analysis of human Y chromosome variation.

MF Hammer, T Karafet, A Rasanayagam… - Molecular biology …, 1998 - academic.oup.com
We surveyed nine diallelic polymorphic sites on the Y chromosomes of 1,544 individuals
from Africa, Asia, Europe, Oceania, and the New World. Phylogenetic analyses of these nine …

A view of modern human origins from Y chromosome microsatellite variation

M Seielstad, E Bekele, M Ibrahim, A Touré… - Genome …, 1999 - genome.cshlp.org
The idea that all modern humans share a recent (within the last 150,000 years) African
origin has been proposed and supported on the basis of three observations. Most genetic …