A Y-STR database of Iranian and Azerbaijanian minority populations.
Seventeen Y-chromosomal short tandem repeats (Y-STR) DYS19, DYS389I, DYS389II, DYS390, DYS391, DYS392, DYS393, DYS385a, DYS385b, DYS437, DYS438, DYS439, DYS448, DYS456, DYS458, DYS635 and GATA H4 were studied in five minor linguistic groups from Iran (Arabs, Gilaki, Mazandarani, Bakhtiari and Southern Talysh) and one from Azerbaijan (Northern Talysh) with the goal of constructing of a representative Y-STR database for this region in Southwest Asia. Analysis of Molecular Variance (AMOVA) reveals non-significant or low genetic distances between the Iranian Gilaki, Mazandarani, Bakhtiari and non-Iranian Turkish, Azerbaijanian, Armenian and Kurd populations, but larger genetic distances to both Talysh populations, the Iranian Arabs, Georgian and Kazakh populations.
Roewer
Lutz
L
Department of Forensic Genetics, Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences, Charité, Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Hannoversche Strasse 6, 10115 Berlin, Germany. lutz.roewer@charite.de
Willuweit
Sascha
S
Stoneking
Mark
M
Nasidze
Ivan
I
D001382:Azerbaijan; D041322:Chromosomes, Human, Y; D016172:DNA Fingerprinting; D030561:Databases, Nucleic Acid; D005828:Genetics, Population; D006801:Humans; D007492:Iran; D008297:Male; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D020080:Tandem Repeat Sequences