@article{10818/36835,
year = {2013},
month = {11},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10818/36835},
abstract = {Objectives: To determine the African, European and Native-American paternal contributions in genetic samples from the Department of Bolivar (Colombia) with the aims of establishing (1) possible population substructures, and (2) the proportion of biological African heritage in admixed populations of European, Amerindian, and African descent.

Methods: Y-SNPs were typed in samples from six communities, including Palenque (renowned for its African linguistic and cultural heritage).

Results: Findings reveal a high diversity of Y-haplogroups. With the exception of Palenque, the sum of European male lineages uniformly exceeded 57%. In Palenque, African lineages accounted for 57.7% of its chromosomes, with European male lineages constituting a mere 38.5%. In Pinillos, a significant proportion (23.8%) of the chromosomes belongs to the Native American haplogroup Q1a3a*-M3. Genetic differentiation analyses reveal significant divergences in most pairwise comparisons among the Bolivar municipalities, and the same holds between Bolivar and other South American populations.

Conclusions: Heterogeneous patterns of admixture reveal a genetic substructure within the Department of Bolivar. On the paternal side, five out of the six communities studied exhibit a predominantly European gene pool. The exception is Palenque, where European input (38%) is more significant than we had expected.},
publisher = {Universidad de La Sabana},
keywords = {African ancestry},
keywords = {Colombia},
keywords = {Male lineages},
keywords = {Palenque},
keywords = {Population genetics},
keywords = {Y-SNP haplogroups},
title = {Colombia’s racial crucible: Y chromosome evidence from six admixed communities in the Department of Bolivar},
doi = {10.3109/03014460.2013.852244},
author = {Noguera, María Claudia and Schwegler, Armin and Gomes, Verónica and Briceño Balcázar, Ignacio and Alvarez, Luis and Uricoechea, Daniel and Amorim, António and Benavides, Escilda and Silvera, Carlos and Charris, Marlon and Bernal Villegas, Jaime Eduardo and Gusmão, Leonor},
}