Human Y-chromosomal STR haplotypes in a Kurdish population sample.
In an Iraqi Kurdish population sample (n = 101), seven polymorphic STR loci of the Y-chromosome (DYS19, 389, 390, 391, 392, 393, and DXYS156-Y) were typed, with DYS389 being subtyped for its four segments. The haplotype diversity was 97.83% and 82 different haplotypes were observed. The Kurds shared some Y-types with neighbouring south Turks but strikingly few with Germans: it is 20-30 times more likely to find a sequence match in a random pair of Kurds than in a random Kurd-German pair.
Brinkmann
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Institut für Humangenetik, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster, Germany.
Forster
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Schürenkamp
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Horst
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Rolf
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Brinkmann
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D005006:Ethnicity / Q000235:genetics*; D005828:Genetics, Population; D005858:Germany; D006239:Haplotypes; D006801:Humans; D007493:Iraq; D020080:Tandem Repeat Sequences; D014998:Y Chromosome / Q000235:genetics*