Y-chromosomal diversity in the population of Guinea-Bissau: a multiethnic perspective

• Published in: BMC Evolutionary Biology
• Main Authors: Rosa, Alexandra, Ornelas, Carolina, Jobling, Mark A., Brehm, António, Villems, Richard
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: BMC 2007
• Subjects: African Continental Ancestry Group; Analysis of Variance; Chromosome Mapping; Chromosomes; Human; Y; DNA; Mitochondrial; Ethnic Groups; Guinea-Bissau; Haplotypes; Humans; Male; Microsatellite Repeats; Phylogeny; Polymorphism; Restriction Fragment Length; Single Nucleotide; Genetic Variation; Faculdade de Ciências da Vida; The ''Y''; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.13/3014; https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-7-124

The geographic and ethnolinguistic differentiation of many African Y-chromosomal lineages provides an opportunity to evaluate human migration episodes and admixture processes, in a pan-continental context. The analysis of the paternal genetic structure of Equatorial West Africans carried out to date...