A predominant European ancestry of paternal lineages from Canary Islanders.
We genotyped 24 biallelic sites and 5 microsatellites from the non-recombining portion of the Y chromosome in 652 males from the Canary Islands. The results indicate that, contrary to mtDNA data, paternal lineages of the current population are overwhelmingly (>90%) of European origin, arguing for a highly asymmetric pattern of mating after European occupation. However, the presence of lineages of indisputable African assignation demonstrates that an aboriginal background still persists (<10%). On the basis of distribution and dating of some of these lineages we derived a genetic perspective of settlement processes of the archipelago in two stages, congruent with anthropological, archaeological and linguistic findings.
Flores
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Departamento de Genética, Universidad de La Laguna, Canary Islands.
Maca-Meyer
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Pérez
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González
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Larruga
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Cabrera
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D000349:Africa; D000483:Alleles; D041322:Chromosomes, Human, Y; D004272:DNA, Mitochondrial; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D005060:Europe; D005220:Fathers; D014644:Genetic Variation; D005838:Genotype; D006239:Haplotypes; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D018895:Microsatellite Repeats; D010802:Phylogeny; D011110:Polymorphism, Genetic; D012150:Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length; D013030:Spain
D004272:DNA, Mitochondrial