Y chromosome sequence variation and the history of human populations

@article{Underhill2000YCS,
  title={Y chromosome sequence variation and the history of human populations},
  author={Peter A. Underhill and Peidong Shen and Alice A. Lin and Li Jin and Giuseppe Passarino and Wei Hai Yang and Erin Kauffman and Batsheva Bonn{\'e}‐Tamir and Jaume Bertranpetit and Paolo Francalacci and Muntaser E. Ibrahim and Trefor Jenkins and Judith R. Kidd and Syed Qasim Mehdi and Mark Seielstad and R. Spencer Wells and Alberto Piazza and Ronald W. Davis and Marcus W. Feldman and Luca L. Cavalli-Sforza and Peter J. Oefner},
  journal={Nature Genetics},
  year={2000},
  volume={26},
  pages={358-361}
}
Binary polymorphisms associated with the non-recombining region of the human Y chromosome (NRY) preserve the paternal genetic legacy of our species that has persisted to the present, permitting inference of human evolution, population affinity and demographic history. We used denaturing high-performance liquid chromatography (DHPLC; ref. 2) to identify 160 of the 166 bi-allelic and 1 tri-allelic site that formed a parsimonious genealogy of 116 haplotypes, several of which display distinct… 
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