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FORENSIC SCIENCE INTERNATIONAL-GENETICS
Volume 4, Issue 1, Pages E53-E55Publisher
ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.fsigen.2009.05.002
Keywords
Y-chromosome STRs; Haplotypes; Iran; Population database; AMOVA
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- Max Planck Society
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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. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
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