Research Article

Boundaries and clines in the West Eurasian Y-chromosome landscape: Insights from the European part of Russia

  1. Angela Fechner1,
  2. Dominique Quinque1,
  3. Sergey Rychkov2,
  4. Irina Morozowa2,
  5. Oksana Naumova2,
  6. Yuriy Schneider2,
  7. Sascha Willuweit3,
  8. Olga Zhukova2,
  9. Lutz Roewer3,
  10. Mark Stoneking1,
  11. Ivan Nasidze1,*

Article first published online: 9 MAY 2008

DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.20838

Issue

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volume 137, Issue 1, pages 41–47, September 2008

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Fechner, A., Quinque, D., Rychkov, S., Morozowa, I., Naumova, O., Schneider, Y., Willuweit, S., Zhukova, O., Roewer, L., Stoneking, M. and Nasidze, I. (2008), Boundaries and clines in the West Eurasian Y-chromosome landscape: Insights from the European part of Russia. Am. J. Phys. Anthropol., 137: 41–47. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.20838

Author Information

  1. 1

    Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany

  2. 2

    N.I. Vavilov Institute for General Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, 119991, Moscow, Russian Federation

  3. 3

    Department of Forensic Genetics, Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences, Charité-Universitätsmedizin, 10115 Berlin, Germany

*Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 7 AUG 2008
  2. Article first published online: 9 MAY 2008
  3. Manuscript Accepted: 19 FEB 2008
  4. Manuscript Received: 4 OCT 2007

Funded by

  • Max Planck Society, Germany
  • The Program of Russian Academy of Sciences “Dynamics of Gene Pools”; “Support of Young Researchers”, Russian Federation

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Keywords:

  • Y chromosome;
  • Europe;
  • Russia;
  • Ural region

Abstract

Previous studies of Y chromosome variation have revealed that western Europe, the Volga-Ural region, and the Caucasus differ dramatically with respect to Y-SNP haplogroup composition. The European part of Russia is situated in between these three regions; to determine if these differences reflect clines or boundaries in the Y-chromosome landscape, we analyzed 12 Y-SNPs in 545 males from 12 populations from the European part of Russia. The majority of Russian Y chromosomes (from 74% to 94%) belong to three Y chromosomal lineages [I-M170, R1a1-M17, and N3-TAT] that are also frequent in the rest of east Europe, north Europe, and/or in the Volga-Ural region. We find significant but low correlations between haplogroup frequencies and the geographic location of populations, suggesting gradual change in the Y chromosome gene pool across western Eurasia. However, we also find some significant boundaries between populations, suggesting that both isolation and migration have influenced the Y chromosome landscape. Am J Phys Anthropol, 2008. © 2008 Wiley-Liss, Inc.

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