Y chromosome sequence variation and the history of human populations

FRANCALACCI, Paolo;
2000-01-01

Abstract

Binary polymorphisms associated with the non-recombining region of the human Y chromosome (NRY) preserve the paternal genetic legacy of our species that has persisted to the present, permitting inference of human evolution, population affinity and demographic history1. We used denaturing high-performance liquid chromatography (DHPLC; ref. 2) to identify 160 of the 166 bi-allelic and 1 tri-allelic site that formed a parsimonious genealogy of 116 haplotypes, several of which display distinct population affinities based on the analysis of 1062 globally representative individuals. A minority of contemporary East Africans and Khoisan represent the descendants of the most ancestral patrilineages of anatomically modern humans that left Africa between 35,000 and 89,000 years ago.
2000
Africa; Animals; Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid; Ethnic Groups; Haplotypes; Hominidae; Humans; Male; Models, Genetic; Molecular Sequence Data; Nucleic Acid Denaturation; Sequence Analysis, DNA; Species Specificity; Y Chromosome; Evolution, Molecular; Phylogeny; Genetics
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