Human paternal and maternal demographic histories: insights from high-resolution Y chromosome and mtDNA sequences
Sebastian Lippold, Hongyang Xu, Albert Ko, Mingkun Li, Gabriel Renaud, Anne Butthof, Roland Schroeder, Mark Stoneking
The paper analyzes Y chromosome and mtDNA sequences from 623 males to study human paternal and maternal demographic histories, finding larger genetic differences for Y chromosomes, small ancestral population sizes, and a growing female-to-male effective population size ratio.
bioRxiv · Jan 13, 2014Genetics