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. 1994 Jan;3(1):115-23.
doi: 10.1093/hmg/3.1.115.

Highly informative compound haplotypes for the human Y chromosome

N Mathias  1 , M Bayés, C Tyler-Smith
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Highly informative compound haplotypes for the human Y chromosome

N Mathias et al. Hum Mol Genet. 1994 Jan.

Abstract

A collection of polymorphic DNA sequences has been used to analyse the variability of a panel of 91 Y chromosomes. Some sequences (DYZ1 and DYZ2) were highly polymorphic and allowed all of the chromosomes to be distinguished. Other sequences were less polymorphic and were used to construct a haplotype for each chromosome and to assign chromosomes to groups. The best understood of these loci could be used to construct a tree showing the evolutionary relationships between the groups of Y chromosomes. In general, Y chromosomes from different ethnic backgrounds belong to different groups.

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