Allele frequencies and haplotypes for 28 Y-STRs in Ovambo population

Polymorphisms at 17 Y-STR loci in Botswana populations

“…There is a dearth of population genetic data on the 17 Y-filer Y-STR loci in Sub-Saharan Africa [12][13][14] including African Americans [15][16][17][18][19]. The Y chromosome haplogroup database (YHRD) only has 1506 profiles from Sub-Saharan Africa in comparison to the 26,805 from Europe (accessed 26/06/2014) [20] even though Africa is the second most populous continent in the world with 1.1 billion people compared to the 741.2 million people in Europe [21,22].…”

“…This study investigates (1) regional and ethnic variation in Sub-Saharan Africa for the possibility of population differentiation using published data [12][13][14], and (2) regional geographic or ethnic differentiation in Botswana. Supplementary material related to this article found, in the online version, at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.fsigen.2015.03.001.…”