The Y Chromosome Consortium (YCC) is a collection of scientists who work toward the understanding of human Y chromosomal phylogenetics

Phylogenetics

In biology, phylogenetics is the study of evolutionary relatedness among groups of organisms , which is discovered through molecular sequencing data and morphological data matrices...

 and evolution. The consortium has the following objectives: web resources that communicate information relating to the non-recombinant region of the Y-chromosome including new variants and changes in the nomenclature

Nomenclature

Nomenclature is a term that applies to either a list of names or terms, or to the system of principles, procedures and terms related to naming - which is the assigning of a word or phrase to a particular object or property...

. The consortium sponsors literature regarding updates in the phylogenetics and nomenclature.