title: [Polymorphism of the STR-locus of Y chromosomes in Eastern Slavs in three populations from Belorussia, Russia and the Ukraine].
abstract: Allelic polymorphism of five microsatellite loci of the human Y chromosome (DYS19, DYS390, DYS391, DYS392, and DYS393) was analyzed in samples of male populations from Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus (152 subjects in total). The allelic diversity indices (Dg) were determined for all loci; they varied from 0.23 to 0.72. The mean values of this parameter in the Ukrainian, Russian, and Belarussian populations were 0.45, 0.47, and 0.52, respectively. A total of 53 different haplotypes were found in 152 subjects from three populations. The most frequent haplotype was found in 14.5% of the subjects, whereas 35 haplotypes (23%) were each found in only one person. The haplotypic diversity index (Dhp) was 0.94. The genetic distances between the populations studied and some populations of Western and Central Europe were estimated. These data were used to construct a phylogram (tree) of genetic similarity between the populations, which demonstrated that the three Eastern Slavic populations are genetically close to one another and remote from Western European populations.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, 252627 Ukraine.
authors.forename: S A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Kravchenko
authors.forename: P A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Slominskiĭ
authors.forename: L A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Bets
authors.forename: A V
authors.initials: AV
authors.lastname: Stepanova
authors.forename: A I
authors.initials: AI
authors.lastname: Mikulich
authors.forename: S A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Limborskaia
authors.forename: L A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Livshits
mesh_terms: D001483:Base Sequence; D017931:DNA Primers; D006239:Haplotypes; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011110:Polymorphism, Genetic; D002094:Republic of Belarus; D012426:Russia; D020080:Tandem Repeat Sequences / Q000235:genetics*; D014455:Ukraine; D014998:Y Chromosome
chemical_list: D017931:DNA Primers