Y-chromosomal STR haplotypes in Kalmyk population samples.
Seventeen Y-chromosomal short tandem repeats (STRs), DYS19, DYS389I, DYS389II, DYS390, DYS391, DYS392, DYS393, DYS385ab, DYS437, DYS438, DYS439, GATA-H4, DYS448, DYS456, DYS458, DYS635 were typed in DNA samples from the Kalmyk population (n=99). The population is characterized by a high proportion of duplicated DYS19 alleles and deletions of the locus DYS448 on the background of the Central Asian haplogroup C*. AMOVA analysis reveals a close vicinity to Mongolian and Kazakh populations and large genetic distance to geographical neighbours from Russia, Ukraine and the Caucasus.
Roewer
Lutz
L
Institute of Legal Medicine, Charité, University Medicine Berlin, Hannoversche Str. 6, 10115 Berlin, Germany. lutz.roewer@charite.de
Krüger
Carmen
C
Willuweit
Sascha
S
Nagy
Marion
M
Rodig
Heike
H
Kokshunova
Lyudmila
L
Rothämel
Thomas
T
Kravchenko
Sergey
S
Jobling
Mark A
MA
Stoneking
Mark
M
Nasidze
Ivan
I
D041322:Chromosomes, Human, Y; D016172:DNA Fingerprinting; D005006:Ethnicity / Q000235:genetics*; D005828:Genetics, Population; D006239:Haplotypes; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D012426:Russia; D020080:Tandem Repeat Sequences