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Y-STR DNA  

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  • Y-STR is a relatively new term for geneticists, becoming common in DNA literature in the second half of the 1990s. TheY stands for the male chromosome, which, as a reproducing cell, does not recombine. [Source: Encyclopedia of Anthropology; Y-STR DNA]

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