An African American Paternal Lineage Adds an Extremely Ancient Root to the Human Y Chromosome Phylogenetic Tree

2013/02/28 by Fernando L. Mendez, Fernando L. Méndez, Thomas Krahn +15 · 10 citations
Arts and Humanities · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · #Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies #Forensic and Genetic Research #Race, Genetics, and Society

paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.ajhg.2013.02.002

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Citations

• Stratigraphic placement and age of modern humans from Kibish, Ethiopia
• Rate of de novo mutations and the importance of father’s age to disease risk
• An Aboriginal Australian Genome Reveals Separate Human Dispersals into Asia
• A Revised Root for the Human Y Chromosomal Phylogenetic Tree: The Origin of Patrilineal Diversity in Africa
• Median-joining networks for inferring intraspecific phylogenies
• Mitochondrial DNA and human evolution

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• Did Our Species Evolve in Subdivided Populations across Africa, and Why Does It Matter?
• Carriers of mitochondrial DNA macrohaplogroup L3 basic lineages migrated back to Africa from Asia around 70,000 years ago
• The Divergence of Neandertal and Modern Human Y Chromosomes
• A Rare Deep-Rooting D0 African Y-Chromosomal Haplogroup and Its Implications for the Expansion of Modern Humans Out of Africa
• Crowdsourcing [wikipedia]
• Mitochondrial Eve [wikipedia]
• Most recent common ancestor [wikipedia]
• Patrilineality [wikipedia]
• Recent African origin of modern humans [wikipedia]