During the past few years the DNA commission of the International Society of Forensic
Genetics has published a series of documents providing guidelines and recommendations …

Hereditary surnames contain information about relatedness within populations. They have
been used as crude indicators of population structure and migration events, and to …

The identification of a growing number of novel Mendelian disorders and private mutations
in the Roma (Gypsies) points to their unique genetic heritage. Linguistic evidence suggests …

The reference database of highly informative Y-chromosomal short tandem repeat (STR)
haplotypes (YHRD), available online at http://ystr. charite. de, represents the largest …

Knowledge about mutation rates and the mutational process of Y-chromosomal short-
tandem-repeat (STR) or microsatellite loci used in paternity testing and forensic analysis is …

The genetic variance at seven Y-chromosomal microsatellite loci (or short tandem repeats
[STRs]) was studied among 986 male individuals from 20 globally dispersed human …

The geographic structure of Y-chromosome variability has been analyzed in native
populations of South America, through use of the high-frequency Native American …

PCR primers closely flanking the repeat region were redesigned to reduce the amplicon
length of the selected STRs down to approximately 100 bp for the shorter alleles (loci …

To investigate the origins and relationships of Australian and Melanesian populations, 611
males from 18 populations from Australia, Melanesia, and eastern/southeastern Asia were …

Human chromosome Y-specific short tandem repeat (Y-specific STR) markers have useful
properties for forensic applications. However, there is a need to develop more Y-specific …