LIBRARY OF SCIENTIFIC PAPERS

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Y-DNA Papers
(listed in the order they were first published)
** - Paper co-authored by one or more scientists members of Family Tree DNA Scientific Advisory Board

Fathers and Sons: Y-chromosome and the human evolution (11/1995)

Y Chromosome Markers and Trans-Bering Strait Dispersals (03/1997)**

Out of Africa and Back Again: Nested Cladistic Analysis of Human Y Chromosome Variation (04/1998)**

Ancestral Asian Source(s) of New World Y-Chromosome Founder Haplotypes (02/1999)**

Y-chromosome variation and Irish origins (03/2000)

Characteristics and Frequency of Germline Mutations at Microsatellite Loci from the Human Y Chromosome, as Revealed by Direct Observation in Father/Son Pairs (04/2000)

Jewish and Middle Eastern non-Jewish populations share a common pool of Y-chromosome biallelic haplotypes (06/2000)**

Melanesian origin of Polynesian Y chromosomes (09/2000)

The Genetic Legacy of Paleolithic Homo sapiens sapiens in Extant Europeans: A Y Chromosome Perspective (11/2000)

Y-Chromosome Lineages Trace Diffusion of People and Languages in Southwestern Asia (12/2000)**

Independent Histories of Human Y Chromosomes from Melanesia and Australia (12/2000)

Hierarchical Patterns of Global Human Y-Chromosome Diversity (03/2001)**

An Extensive Analysis of Y-Chromosomal Microsatellite Haplotypes in Globally Dispersed Human Populations (03/2001)

Alu insertion polymorphisms and the genetic structure of human populations from the Caucasus (04/2001)

Mutations at Y-STR Loci: Implications for paternity testing and forensic analysis (05/2001)

Y Chromosomes of Jewish Priests (07/2001)**

A Nomenclature System for the Tree of Human Y-Chromosomal Binary Haplogroups (02/2002)**

Forensic value of 14 novel STRs on the human Y chromosome (04/2002)**

Clinal patterns of human Y chromosomal diversity in continental Italy and Greece are dominated by drift and founder effects (06/2002)

A novel multiplex for simultaneous amplification of 20 Y chromosome STR markers (09/2002)**

Testing Hypotheses of language replacement in the Caucasus: evidence from the Y-Chromosome (12/2002)

A Y-Chromosome Census of the British Isles (05/2003)

Recent Developments in Y-STR and Y-SNP Analysis (07/2003)

Analysis of 16YSTR loci in the Finnish population reveals a local reduction in the diversity of male lineages (07/2003)

The Human Y-Chromosome: An Evolutionary Marker Comes of Age (08/2003)

High-Resolution SNPs and Microsatellite Haplotypes Point to a Single,Recent Entry of Native American Y Chromosomes into the Americas (08/2003)**

Multiple Origins of Ashkenazi Levites: Y Chromosome Evidence for Both Near Eastern and European Ancestries (09/2003)**

Excavating Y-chromosome haplotype strata in Anatolia (10/2003)

Contrasting patterns of Y chromosome variation in Ashkenazi Jewish and host non-Jewish European populations (01/2004)**

Phylogeographic Analysis of Haplogroup E3b(E-M215)Y Chromosomes Reveals Multiple Migratory Events Within and Out Of Africa (03/2004)

Origin, Diffusion, and Differentiation of Y-Chromosome Haplogroups E and J: Inferences on the Neolithization of Europe and Later Migratory Events in the Mediterranean Area (04/2004)

Phylogeography of Y-Chromosome Haplogroup I Reveals Distinct Domains of Prehistoric Gene Flow in Europe (05/2004)

Y chromosomal haplogroup J as a signature of the post-neolithic colonization of Europe (08/2004)

Population Structure in the Mediterranean Basin: A Y Chromosome Perspective (07/2005)

Population structure of Y chromosome SNP haplogroups in the United States and forensic implications for constructing Y chromosome STR databases (11/2005)**

Molecular Dissection of the Y Chromosome Haplogroup E-M78 (E3b1a): A Posteriori Evaluation of a Microsatellite-Network-Based Approach Through Six New Biallelic Markers (04/2006)

Y-chromosome haplogroup N dispersals from south Siberia to Europe (07/2007)

Additional papers:

mtDNA Papers

General Interest and Combined Y-DNA/mtDNA Papers