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Compared to standard Y-STR markers commonly used in forensics and bioarchaeology, rapidly mutating Y-STR markers (RM Y-STR) have a significantly higher haplotype diversity and lineage resolution abilities in world populations. They form a novelty in these fields. This paper will attempt to clarify their origin, function, and efficacy in forensic genetics, genealogy, and molecular anthropology by looking at the Y chromosome and its characteristics that allow its use in the mapping of populations, individual male lineages, and identifying male perpetrators of sexual violence. By looking at other polymorphisms of the Y chromosome, especially Y-SNP markers, we can see in which studies each type is used most effectively. In the end, it will be clarified whether the use of RM Y-STR markers is beneficial to each field, whether they make standard Y-STR markers redundant, or whether they are themselves of no substantial use in comparison. |