title: A comprehensive Y-STR portrait of Yousafzai's population.
abstract: In the current study, 17 Y-Chromosomal short tandem repeats (Y-STRs) included in theAmpFlSTR Y-Filer amplification kit (Applied Biosystems, Foster City, USA) were investigated in 146 unrelated Yousafzai males residing in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistan. A total of 94 (89.52%) unique haplotypes were observed. Discrimination capacity was 71.92%. Haplotype diversity ranged from 0.354 (DYS456) to 0.663 (DYS458). Both Rst pairwise analysis and multidimensional scaling plot showed that the genetic structure of the Yousafzais is significantly different from neighbouring populations.
authors.affiliation: Department of Genetics, Hazara University, Mansehra, Pakistan.
authors.forename: Sadia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Tabassum
authors.affiliation: Centre for Human Genetics, Hazara University, Mansehra, Pakistan. milyaskh@hotmail.com.
authors.forename: Muhammad
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ilyas
authors.affiliation: Department of Genetics, Hazara University, Mansehra, Pakistan.
authors.forename: Inam
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Ullah
authors.affiliation: Department of Forensic Studies, University of Swat, Swat, Pakistan.
authors.forename: Muhammad
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Israr
authors.affiliation: Department of Genetics, Hazara University, Mansehra, Pakistan.|Centre for Human Genetics, Hazara University, Mansehra, Pakistan.|Islamia College University, Peshawar, Pakistan.
authors.forename: Habib
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ahmad
mesh_terms: D041322:Chromosomes, Human, Y; D016172:DNA Fingerprinting; D005006:Ethnicity / Q000235:genetics*; D005787:Gene Frequency; D005828:Genetics, Population; D006239:Haplotypes; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D018895:Microsatellite Repeats; D010154:Pakistan; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction
keywords: Forensic; Haplotype; Pakhtuns; Pakistan; Y-STR; Yousafzai