Ferri Gianmarco, Ceccardi Stefania, Lugaresi Federica, Bini Carla, Ingravallo Francesca, Cicognani Alberto, Falconi Mirella, Pelotti Susi
Department of Medicine and Public Health, Section of Legal Medicine, University of Bologna, Italy.
Forensic Sci Int. 2008 Mar 5;175(2-3):250-5. doi: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2007.06.007. Epub 2007 Jul 16.
The distribution of Y chromosomal haplotypes and haplogroups in two different population samples from the Romagna region (North Italy) was performed. One population sample was collected in the urban area of Rimini, an ancient port in Roman age and the other one in the near and geographically more isolated rural area of Valmarecchia. Fast and slow evolving markers have been studied to infer population history and to analyse the microgeographic heterogeneity of Y chromosome in a Northern Italian region. Haplotype variability values compared to those observed in a Central Italy sample from the other side of Apennine mountains and in an Austrian population sample were very similar.
