Paternal European ancestry in French Polynesia detected by Y-chromosome haplotypes.
Y-chromosome-specific polymorphisms p49f-a/TaqI were studied in a sample of 68 French Polynesians, and five haplotypes were observed. Three of them were haplotypes characteristic of European ancestry. The mean haplotype (45.6%) in French Polynesia is haplotype XV, a typical western European haplotype. Such an elevated frequency of European haplotypes is due to male gene flow from Europeans in French Polynesia.
Lucotte
Gérard
G
International Institute of Anthropology, Paris, France. Lucotte@hotmail.com
D041322:Chromosomes, Human, Y / Q000235:genetics*; D005060:Europe / Q000208:ethnology; D005787:Gene Frequency; D005828:Genetics, Population; D006239:Haplotypes; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011110:Polymorphism, Genetic; D011114:Polynesia