The deep population history of East Asia remains poorly understood owing to a lack of
ancient DNA data and sparse sampling of present-day people,. Here we report genome …

Human Y-chromosomes are characterized by nonrecombination and uniparental
inheritance, carrying traces of human history evolution and admixture. Large-scale …

Ancestry testing is a home DNA test with many dimensions; in some cases, the implications
and outcomes of testing cross over into the health sphere. Common reasons for seeking …

Prehistoric Japan underwent rapid transformations in the past 3000 years, first from foraging
to wet rice farming and then to state formation. A long-standing hypothesis posits that …

A general south-north genetic divergence has been observed among Han Chinese in
previous studies. However, these studies, especially those on mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) …

Since the last systematic review of Tibetan archaeology in 2004 published in Journal of
World Prehistory (Aldenderfer and Zhang 2004), a revival of archaeological research on the …

East Asia, geographically extending to the Pamir Plateau in the west, to the Himalayan
Mountains in the southwest, to Lake Baikal in the north and to the South China Sea in the …

The human demographic history of Mainland Southeast Asia (MSEA) has not been well
studied; in particular, there have been very few sequence-based studies of variation in the …

A single-tube multiplex assay of a small set of ancestry-informative markers (AIMs) for
effectively estimating individual ancestry and admixture is an ideal forensic tool to trace the …

China has repeatedly been the subject of genetic studies to elucidate its prehistoric and
historic demography. While some studies reported a genetic distinction between Northern …