Paternal and maternal genetic analysis of a desert Keriyan population: Keriyans are not the descendants of Guge Tibetans.

Paternal and maternal genetic analysis of a desert Keriyan population: Keriyans are not the descendants of Guge Tibetans.

The Keriyan people live in an isolated village in the Taklimakan Desert in Xinjiang, Western China. The origin and migration of the Keriyans remains unclear. We studied paternal and maternal genetic variance through typing Y-STR loci and sequencing the complete control region of the mtDNA and compar...

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Main Authors: Kaixu Chen, Abdurahman Ablimit, Fengjun Ling, Weiwei Wu, Wenjuan Shan, Wenbei Qin, Tuerhong Keweier, Hongli Zuo, Fuchun Zhang, Zhenghai Ma, Xiufen Zheng
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4072674?pdf=render

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