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ReviewInvestigative genetics2014

Evaluating the Y chromosomal timescale in human demographic and lineage dating.

Chuan-Chao Wang, M Thomas P Gilbert, Li Jin, Hui Li

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Review in Investigative genetics, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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6 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. Dispersals of the Siberian Y-chromosome haplogroup Q in Eurasia.Molecular genetics and genomics : MGG · 2018
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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors.

Chuan-Chao WangState Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering and MOE Key Laboratory of Contemporary Anthropology, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 200438, China.
M Thomas P GilbertCentre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen 1350, Denmark.
Li JinState Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering and MOE Key Laboratory of Contemporary Anthropology, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 200438, China ; Department of Computational Genetics, CAS-MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology, Shanghai 200031, China.
Hui LiState Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering and MOE Key Laboratory of Contemporary Anthropology, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 200438, China.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Y chromosome is a superb tool for inferring human evolution and recent demographic history from a paternal perspective. However, Y chromosomal substitution rates obtained using different modes of calibration vary considerably, and have produced disparate reconstructions of human history. Here, we discuss how substitution rate and date estimates are affected by the choice of different calibration points. We argue that most Y chromosomal substitution rates calculated to date have shortcomings, including a reliance on the ambiguous human-chimpanzee divergence time, insufficient sampling of deep-rooting pedigrees, and using inappropriate founding migrations, although the rates obtained from a single pedigree or calibrated with the peopling of the Americas seem plausible. We highlight the need for using more deep-rooting pedigrees and ancient genomes with reliable dates to improve the rate estimation.

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Demographic historyLineage datingSubstitution rateY chromosome

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PMID25215184
PMCPMC4160915

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