Population genetics of Y-chromosome STRs in a population of Podlasie, northeastern Poland

Y-chromosome variation in northeastern Poland

“…The pairwise population comparisons between autochthonous Poles [6] and the studied minorities reveals statistically significant differences in F ST values and relatively small values of interpopulation variation, that indicated a certain degree of genetic differentiation (Tables 2 and 3). The resulting data are consistent with the idea of a genetic proximity of Belarussians and Lithuanians to the Polish population due to the common Slavic origin and historical-political contacts and support the concept of a Polish admixture in Y-chromosomal lineages of Polish Tatars.…”

Y-chromosome STR haplotypes and alleles in the ethnic group of Polish Tatars residing in the Northeastern Poland

“…The haplotype #72 presented four times in the studied population sample was observed 15 times in the Asian data set and 70 times in the European data set, including several Polish populations [8][9][10][11][12]. The present haplotype distributions were compared with the previously published data for the autochthonous Poles [12].…”

Analysis of Y chromosome STR haplotypes in the European part of Russia reveals high diversities but non-significant genetic distances between populations

“…Pairwise values of Φ st , an analogue of Wrights Fst that takes the evolutionary distance between individual haplotypes into account [ 7 , 8 ], were calculated to measure genetic distances between 17 locus haplotypes of 12 Western Russian populations. Subsequently, these populations were treated as one metapopulation and the minimal haplotypes (which includes the nine loci: DYS19, DYS389I, DYS389II, DYS390, DYS391, DYS392, DYS393, DYS385ab) were compared to published data from nine neighbouring regions, namely 271 minimal haplotypes from Belarus [ 9 ], 502 from the Caucasus [ 10 ], 133 from Estonia, 145 from Latvia and 157 from Lithuania [ 11 ], 399 samples from Finland [ 12 ], 3,021 from Poland [ 13 – 15 ], 370 from Siberia [ 16 , 17 ] and 368 from Ukraine [ 18 ], with the statistical significance determined by a permutation test (10,000 replicates; Table 2 ). We used our own implementation of analysis of molecular variance (AMOVA; available at http://rprojekt.org/amova/ ).…”