Toward Male Individualization with Rapidly Mutating Y‐Chromosomal Short Tandem Repeats. Issue 8 (14th July 2014) - Ballantyne, Kaye N.
Abstract The value of 13 rapidly‐mutating (RM) Y‐STRs for differentiating male individuals is investigated in 14, 644 related and unrelated men sampled from 111 worldwide populations. Over 99% of the 12, 272 unrelated men were completely individualized. Of the 2, 378 father‐son pairs, 27% were separated. Figure: blue lines represent Y‐STR haplotypes shared between population pairs in a subset of 7, 784 males from 65 populations. Almost all shared haplotypes defined by conventional 17 Yfiler Y‐STRs (above) are resolved with the 13 RM Y‐STRs (below).