Recent Spread of a Y-Chromosomal Lineage in Northern China and Mongolia

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• 作者：Yali Xue ; Tatiana Zerjal ; Weidong Bao ; Suling Zhu ; Si-Keun Lim ; Qunfang Shu ; Jiujin Xu ; Ruofu Du ; Songbin Fu ; Pu Li ; Huanming Yang ; Chris Tyler-Smith
• 刊名：The American Journal of Human Genetics
• 出版年：2005
• 出版时间：December 2005
• 年：2005
• 卷：77
• 期：6
• 页码：1112-1116
• 全文大小：321 K

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We have identified a Y-chromosomal lineage that is unusually frequent in northeastern China and Mongolia, in which a haplotype cluster defined by 15 Y short tandem repeats was carried by 3.3 % of the males sampled from East Asia. The most recent common ancestor of this lineage lived 590 ± 340 years ago (mean ± SD), and it was detected in Mongolians and six Chinese minority populations. We suggest that the lineage was spread by Qing Dynasty (1644–1912) nobility, who were a privileged elite sharing patrilineal descent from Giocangga (died 1582), the grandfather of Manchu leader Nurhaci, and whose documented members formed 0.4 % of the minority population by the end of the dynasty.