aYChr-DB: a database of ancient human Y haplogroups

Laurence Freeman; Conrad Stephen Brimacombe; Eran Elhaik

doi:10.1093/nargab/lqaa081

aYChr-DB: a database of ancient human Y haplogroups

Laurence Freeman, Conrad Stephen Brimacombe, Eran Elhaik

University of Sheffield

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Ancient Y-Chromosomal DNA is an invaluable tool for dating and discerning the origins of migration routes and demographic processes that occurred thousands of years ago. Driven by the adoption of high-throughput sequencing and capture enrichment methods in paleogenomics, the number of published ancient genomes has nearly quadrupled within the last three years (2018-2020). Whereas ancient mtDNA haplogroup repositories are available, no similar resource exists for ancient Y-Chromosomal haplogroups. Here, we present aYChr-DB-a comprehensive collection of 1797 ancient Eurasian human Y-Chromosome haplogroups ranging from 44 930 BC to 1945 AD. We include descriptors of age, location, genomic coverage and associated archaeological cultures. We also produced a visualization of ancient Y haplogroup distribution over time. The aYChr-DB database is a valuable resource for population genomic and paleogenomic studies.

Original language	English
Article number	lqaa081
Number of pages	4
Journal	NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics
Volume	2
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/nargab/lqaa081
Publication status	Published - 2020 Dec

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