Analysis of Y chromosome STR haplotypes in the European part of Russia reveals high diversities but non-significant genetic distances between populations.
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.
Roewer
Lutz
L
Department of Forensic Genetics, Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences, Charité-Universitätsmedizin, Hannoversche Strasse 6, 10115 Berlin, Germany. lutz.roewer@charite.de
Willuweit
Sascha
S
Krüger
Carmen
C
Nagy
Marion
M
Rychkov
Sergey
S
Morozowa
Irina
I
Naumova
Oksana
O
Schneider
Yuriy
Y
Zhukova
Olga
O
Stoneking
Mark
M
Nasidze
Ivan
I
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