Abstract
A sample of 255 Brazilian males from Rio Grande do Sul (RS), the Brazilian southernmost
state, was typed for 17 Y-STR loci (DYS19, DYS389I, DYS389II, DYS390, DYS391, DYS392,
DYS393, DYS437, DYS438, DYS439, DYS448, DYS456, DYS458, DYS635, YGATA_H4.1 and DYS385ab).
A total of 247 haplotypes were identified, of which 239 were unique and eight were
found in two individuals each. The haplotype diversity (99.98%) and discrimination
capacity (96.86%) were calculated. Pairwise haplotype distances showed that the RS
population is not significantly different from Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, and Argentina,
is different from São Paulo, Italy, and North Portugal, and is very distant from Spain,
the Amazon region, Germany, and South Amerindians. When the RS data was separated
in the seven geopolitical regions, some pairs of regions were significantly different;
however no region was different from the whole Brazilian sample.
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Publication history
Published online: March 12, 2009
Accepted:
February 4,
2009
Received in revised form:
January 28,
2009
Received:
December 15,
2008
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