Y-chromosome diversity characterizes the Gulf of Oman Export

@article{Cadenas2007a, abstract = {Arabia has served as a strategic crossroads for human disseminations, providing a natural connection between the distant populations of China and India in the east to the western civilizations along the Mediterranean. To explore this region's critical role in the migratory episodes leaving Africa to Eurasia and back, high-resolution Y-chromosome analysis of males from the United Arab Emirates (164), Qatar (72) and Yemen (62) was performed. The role of the Levant in the Neolithic dispersal of the E3b1-M35 sublineages is supported by the data, and the distribution and STR-based analyses of J1-M267 representatives points to their spread from the north, most likely during the Neolithic. With the exception of Yemen, southern Arabia, South Iran and South Pakistan display high diversity in their Y-haplogroup substructure possibly a result of gene flow along the coastal crescent-shaped corridor of the Gulf of Oman facilitating human dispersals. Elevated rates of consanguinity may have had an impact in Yemen and Qatar, which experience significant heterozygote deficiencies at various hypervariable autosomal STR loci.}, author = {Cadenas, Alicia M. and Zhivotovsky, Lev A. and Cavalli-Sforza, Luca L. and Underhill, Peter A. and Herrera, Rene J.}, citeulike-article-id = {1751439}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.nature.com/ejhg/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/5201934a.html;jsessionid=8385D690B1F61E67D9F0BD8313ADCF28}, journal = {European Journal of Human Genetics}, keywords = {autosome, haplotype-counting, oman, snp, str, update-pdf-when-final, y, yemen}, posted-at = {2007-10-10 18:11:58}, priority = {2}, title = {Y-chromosome diversity characterizes the Gulf of Oman}, url = {http://www.nature.com/ejhg/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/5201934a.html;jsessionid=8385D690B1F61E67D9F0BD8313ADCF28}, year = {2007} }

TY - JOUR ID - Cadenas2007a L3 - citeulike-article-id:1751439 N2 - Arabia has served as a strategic crossroads for human disseminations, providing a natural connection between the distant populations of China and India in the east to the western civilizations along the Mediterranean. To explore this region's critical role in the migratory episodes leaving Africa to Eurasia and back, high-resolution Y-chromosome analysis of males from the United Arab Emirates (164), Qatar (72) and Yemen (62) was performed. The role of the Levant in the Neolithic dispersal of the E3b1-M35 sublineages is supported by the data, and the distribution and STR-based analyses of J1-M267 representatives points to their spread from the north, most likely during the Neolithic. With the exception of Yemen, southern Arabia, South Iran and South Pakistan display high diversity in their Y-haplogroup substructure possibly a result of gene flow along the coastal crescent-shaped corridor of the Gulf of Oman facilitating human dispersals. Elevated rates of consanguinity may have had an impact in Yemen and Qatar, which experience significant heterozygote deficiencies at various hypervariable autosomal STR loci. JF - European Journal of Human Genetics TI - Y-chromosome diversity characterizes the Gulf of Oman KW - autosome KW - haplotype-counting KW - oman KW - snp KW - str KW - update-pdf-when-final KW - y KW - yemen AU - Cadenas, Alicia AU - Zhivotovsky, Lev AU - Cavalli-Sforza, Luca AU - Underhill, Peter AU - Herrera, Rene PY - 2007/// UR - http://www.nature.com/ejhg/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/5201934a.html;jsessionid=8385D690B1F61E67D9F0BD8313ADCF28 ER -