A Nomenclature System for the Tree of Human Y-Chromosomal Binary Haplogroups

Acknowledgments

The YCC wishes to thank the many people involved in this collaborative project. Following is a list of many of the contributors to this project and sources of funding.

YCC Organizers

Nathan Ellis (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center), Michael Hammer (University of Arizona)

Genotyping

Michael Hammer (University of Arizona), Matthew E. Hurles (McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research), Mark A. Jobling (University of Leicester), Tatiana Karafet (University of Arizona), Turi E. King (University of Leicester), Peter de Knijff (Leiden University), Arpita Pandya (University of Oxford), Alan Redd (University of Arizona), Fabrício R. Santos (University of Oxford and Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais), Chris Tyler-Smith (University of Oxford), Peter Underhill (Stanford University), Elizabeth Wood (University of Arizona). Mark Thomas (University College London) provided information on the order of the M17/SRY10831b mutations.

Cell lines

Luca Cavalli-Sforza (Stanford University), Nathan Ellis (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center), Michael Hammer (University of Arizona), Trefor Jenkins (University of Witwatersrand), Judy Kidd (Yale University), Ken Kidd (Yale University).

Nomenclature Committee

Peter Forster (McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research), Michael Hammer (University of Arizona), Matthew E. Hurles (McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research), Mark A. Jobling (University of Leicester), Peter de Knijff (Leiden University), Chris Tyler-Smith (University of Oxford), Peter Underhill (Stanford University).

Helpful discussions

Stephen Zegura (University of Arizona), Matthew Kaplan (University of Arizona).

This work was supported by grants from the National Science Foundation (OPP-9806759) and the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (GM53566) to MH; from the NIH (GM28428 and GM55273) to PAU and LCS, from the BBSRC to AP; from the Leverhulme Trust to FRS; and from the CRC to CTS. MAJ is a Wellcome Trust Senior Fellow in Basic Biomedical Science (grant number 057559).

The Y Chromosome Consortium would like to thank Colin Renfrew and the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research for running a workshop attended by the members of the nomenclature committee at which many issues were resolved in a collaborative spirit.

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