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. 2008 May;122(3):219-23.
doi: 10.1007/s00414-007-0222-2. Epub 2008 Jan 29.

Analysis of Y chromosome STR haplotypes in the European part of Russia reveals high diversities but non-significant genetic distances between populations

Lutz Roewer  1 , Sascha Willuweit, Carmen Krüger, Marion Nagy, Sergey Rychkov, Irina Morozowa, Oksana Naumova, Yuriy Schneider, Olga Zhukova, Mark Stoneking, Ivan Nasidze
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Analysis of Y chromosome STR haplotypes in the European part of Russia reveals high diversities but non-significant genetic distances between populations

Lutz Roewer et al. Int J Legal Med. 2008 May.

Abstract

A total of 17 Y-specific STR loci were studied in 12 districts of the European part of Russia aiming to ascertain the amount of substructure required for the construction of a representative regional database. All groups exhibited high haplotype diversities but low inter-population variance as measured by an analysis of molecular variance. However, when Western Russia is taken as a whole, the genetic distances to the neighbouring populations were significant. Whereas gradual change in the Y chromosome pool exists between Russia and the Slavic-speaking populations to the West, remarkable discontinuities were observed with neighbouring populations in the East, North and South.

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Fig. 1
Map of Europe depicting the analysed populations from the European part of Russia and neighbouring territories
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Fig. 2
Multi-dimensional scaling (MDS) plot of the Western Russian metapopulation and nine reference populations, from pairwise Φst values. Stress value = 0.002. Acronyms are as follows: Rus–Russians, Bel–Belarus, Ukr–Ukrainians, Lat–Latvians, Lit–Lithuanians, Est–Estonians, Cau-Caucasus, Pol–Polish, Fin-Finns, Sib–Siberia
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