The expansion of Bantu languages, which started around 5,000 years before present in
west/central Africa and spread all throughout sub-Saharan Africa, may represent one of the …

Background Before the arrival of Europeans to Cuba, the island was inhabited by two Native
American groups, the Tainos and the Ciboneys. Most of the present archaeological …

The Y chromosome is paternally inherited and therefore serves as an evolutionary marker of
patrilineal descent. Worldwide DNA variation within the non-recombining portion of the Y …

Inherited DNA polymorphisms located within the nonrecombing portion of the human Y
chromosome provide a powerful means of tracking the patrilineal ancestry of male …

Over the past 500 years, the Bahamas has been influenced by a wide array of settlers, some
of whom have left marked genetic imprints throughout the archipelago. To assess the extent …

Background The analysis of human Y-chromosome variation in the context of population
genetics and forensics requires the genotyping of dozens to hundreds of selected single …

Four multiplex PCR systems followed by single base extension reactions were developed to
score 22 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) and identify the most frequent East Asian …

La Réunion, one of the three Mascarene islands located in the Indian Ocean, remained
devoid of inhabitants until it was first colonized by the French in the middle of the 17th …

Methods Short tandem repeats (STR) and single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) on the Y
chromosome were typed in 311 unrelated men from four different ethnic groups–Italians …

Inundation of evolutionary markers expedited in Human Genome Project and 1000 Genome
Consortium has necessitated pruning of redundant and dependent variables. Various …