Population genetic study of 17 Y-STR Loci of the Sorani Kurds in the Province of Sulaymaniyah, Iraq.

Balnd M Albarzinji Farhad M Abdulkarim Shaho A Hussein Dlshad Rashid Hayder Lazim

Published in: BMC genomics (2022)

Haplogroup prediction indicated predominance (28%) of subclade J2 (44/157) in the Sorani Kurds, northeast of Iraq. The pairwise genetic distance results showed that the Kurdish group clustered along with Asian populations, whereas the furthest countries were Europeans and Africans.

Keyphrases

genome wide
mitochondrial dna
copy number
south africa
dna methylation
gene expression