title: Analysis of Y chromosome STR haplotypes in the European part of Russia reveals high diversities but non-significant genetic distances between populations.
abstract: A total of 17 Y-specific STR loci were studied in 12 districts of the European part of Russia aiming to ascertain the amount of substructure required for the construction of a representative regional database. All groups exhibited high haplotype diversities but low inter-population variance as measured by an analysis of molecular variance. However, when Western Russia is taken as a whole, the genetic distances to the neighbouring populations were significant. Whereas gradual change in the Y chromosome pool exists between Russia and the Slavic-speaking populations to the West, remarkable discontinuities were observed with neighbouring populations in the East, North and South.
authors.affiliation: Department of Forensic Genetics, Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences, Charité-Universitätsmedizin, Hannoversche Strasse 6, 10115 Berlin, Germany. lutz.roewer@charite.de
authors.forename: Lutz
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Roewer
authors.forename: Sascha
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Willuweit
authors.forename: Carmen
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Krüger
authors.forename: Marion
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nagy
authors.forename: Sergey
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Rychkov
authors.forename: Irina
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Morozowa
authors.forename: Oksana
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Naumova
authors.forename: Yuriy
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Schneider
authors.forename: Olga
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Zhukova
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Stoneking
authors.forename: Ivan
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Nasidze
mesh_terms: D041322:Chromosomes, Human, Y; D016172:DNA Fingerprinting; D005828:Genetics, Population; D006239:Haplotypes; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D020641:Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide; D012426:Russia; D020080:Tandem Repeat Sequences