title: A comprehensive Y-STR portrait of Argentinean populations.
abstract: A study of 23 Y-STRs was conducted in 257 individuals living in urban areas from eight Argentinean provinces. The data were meta-analyzed together with 364 profiles obtained from the literature that represent other five provinces. A total of 255 different haplotypes were observed (253 singletons). Genetic structure estimated from analysis of molecular variance (AMOVA) and exploring different grouping scenarios, yielded high within population variance. Not surprisingly, analyses of genetic distances with respect to main ancestral continental populations indicated Argentinean haplotypes to be closely related to European ones. Overall, these results provide a quite complete picture of the patterns of Y chromosome variation in Argentina, notably contributing to increase the previous national database, and consequently allowing a better estimation of parameters of interest in forensic casework and parentage testing.
authors.affiliation: PRICAI-Fundación Favaloro, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Unidade de Xenética, Departamento de Anatomía Patolóxica e Ciencias Forenses, and Instituto de Ciencias Forenses, Grupo de Medicina Xenómica (GMX), Facultade de Medicina, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 15872 Galicia, Spain. Electronic address: utoscanini@pricai.com.ar.
authors.forename: Ulises
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Toscanini
authors.affiliation: LIDMO-EAAF, Córdoba, Argentina.
authors.forename: Carlos
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Vullo
authors.affiliation: PRICAI-Fundación Favaloro, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
authors.forename: Gabriela
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Berardi
authors.affiliation: PRICAI-Fundación Favaloro, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
authors.forename: Cintia
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Llull
authors.affiliation: LIDMO-EAAF, Córdoba, Argentina.
authors.forename: Alicia
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Borosky
authors.affiliation: PRICAI-Fundación Favaloro, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
authors.forename: Andrea
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gómez
authors.affiliation: Unidade de Xenética, Departamento de Anatomía Patolóxica e Ciencias Forenses, and Instituto de Ciencias Forenses, Grupo de Medicina Xenómica (GMX), Facultade de Medicina, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 15872 Galicia, Spain.
authors.forename: Jacobo
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Pardo-Seco
authors.affiliation: Unidade de Xenética, Departamento de Anatomía Patolóxica e Ciencias Forenses, and Instituto de Ciencias Forenses, Grupo de Medicina Xenómica (GMX), Facultade de Medicina, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, 15872 Galicia, Spain. Electronic address: antonio.salas@usc.es.
authors.forename: Antonio
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Salas
mesh_terms: D001118:Argentina; D041322:Chromosomes, Human, Y; D053803:Forensic Genetics / Q000379:methods; D005828:Genetics, Population; D006239:Haplotypes; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D018895:Microsatellite Repeats
keywords: Argentina; Forensic genetics; PPY23; Y-STR; YHRD