title: Geographical structure of the Y-chromosomal genetic landscape of the Levant: a coastal-inland contrast.
abstract: We have examined the male-specific phylogeography of the Levant and its surroundings by analyzing Y-chromosomal haplogroup distributions using 5874 samples (885 new) from 23 countries. The diversity within some of these haplogroups was also examined. The Levantine populations showed clustering in SNP and STR analyses when considered against a broad Middle-East and North African background. However, we also found a coastal-inland, east-west pattern of diversity and frequency distribution in several haplogroups within the small region of the Levant. Since estimates of effective population size are similar in the two regions, this strong pattern is likely to have arisen mainly from differential migrations, with different lineages introduced from the east and west.
authors.affiliation: The Lebanese American University, Chouran, Beirut 1102 2801, Lebanon.
authors.forename: Mirvat
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: El-Sibai
authors.forename: Daniel E
authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: Platt
authors.forename: Marc
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Haber
authors.forename: Yali
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Xue
authors.forename: Sonia C
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Youhanna
authors.forename: R Spencer
authors.initials: RS
authors.lastname: Wells
authors.forename: Hassan
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Izaabel
authors.forename: May F
authors.initials: MF
authors.lastname: Sanyoura
authors.forename: Haidar
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Harmanani
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authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Bonab
authors.forename: Jaafar
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authors.lastname: Hashwa
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authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Tyler-Smith
authors.forename: Pierre A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Zalloua
mesh_terms: D041322:Chromosomes, Human, Y; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D005828:Genetics, Population; D006239:Haplotypes; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008877:Middle East; D020641:Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide; D020080:Tandem Repeat Sequences
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