Human evolution: sex-specific contributions to genome variation.
Disotell TR.
New York University, Department of Anthropology, 25 Waverly Place, New York, 10003, USA.
Studies of maternally-inherited mitochondrial DNA have provided evidence that all modern humans have a common, 200,000 year old African ancestor. Recent studies of Y chromosome variation support this view and suggest that males and females have contributed differentially to human genome variation.
PMID: 9889112 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]