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Letter to the Editor| Volume 16, P203-204, May 2015

Population genetics of 23 Y-STR markers in Kuwaiti population

Published:January 17, 2015DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fsigen.2015.01.007
      Kuwait is a princedom comprising around 15,000 km2 area of the Arabian Peninsula. Kuwait’s (Fig. 1) eastern border is adjacent to the Arabian Gulf, and bordered by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on its south and southwest and by the Republic of Iraq on its north and northwest. The population in Kuwait is diverse. According to the 2011 census, of the 3.6 million people residing in Kuwait, Kuwaitis population comprise 31.9% of the population (∼1,185,000 people) [ ]. Kuwait is populated predominately with Arabs from Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Palestine, Syria, and Lebanon. Persians form make up the remainder of the bulk [
      • Hill A.
      The population of Kuwait.
      ]. It also is worth noting that the Kuwait population contains individuals descended from an African ancestry [
      • Khazaal H.
      ].
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      Fig. 1The map of Kuwait showing its border, adapted from Theyab et al.
      [
      • Theyab J.B.
      • Al-Bustan S.
      • Crawford M.H.
      The genetic structure of the Kuwaiti population: mtDNA inter- and intra-population variation.
      ]
      .
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