Reference Type: Journal Article

Record Number: 130

Author: L. Roewer, S. Willuweit, C. Kruger, M. Nagy, S. Rychkov, I. Morozowa, O. Naumova, Y. Schneider, O. Zhukova, M. Stoneking and I. Nasidze

Year: 2008

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

Journal: Int J Legal Med

Volume: 122

Issue: 3

Pages: 219-23

Epub Date: 2008/01/30

Date: May

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

ISSN: 0937-9827 (Print)

DOI: 10.1007/s00414-007-0222-2,

Accession Number: 18228030

Keywords: *Chromosomes, Human, Y, DNA Fingerprinting, *Genetics, Population, *Haplotypes, Humans, Male, Polymerase Chain Reaction, Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, Russia, *Tandem Repeat Sequences,

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.

Notes: Roewer, Lutz, Willuweit, Sascha, Kruger, Carmen, Nagy, Marion, Rychkov, Sergey, Morozowa, Irina, Naumova, Oksana, Schneider, Yuriy, Zhukova, Olga, Stoneking, Mark, Nasidze, Ivan, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Germany, International journal of legal medicine, Int J Legal Med. 2008 May;122(3):219-23. Epub 2008 Jan 29.,

Author Address: Department of Forensic Genetics, Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences, Charite-Universitatsmedizin, Hannoversche Strasse 6, 10115 Berlin, Germany. lutz.roewer@charite.de

Language: eng