Skip to main content

SAGE Social Science Thesaurus

Search from vocabulary

Concept information

Preferred term

Y-STR DNA  

Definition

  • 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]

Broader concept

Belongs to group

URI

http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-QSR835SZ-J

Download this concept: