Human genomics is witnessing an ongoing paradigm shift from a single reference sequence
to a pangenome form, but populations of Asian ancestry are underrepresented. Here we …

As the most prevalent aboriginal group on Hainan Island located between South China and
the mainland of Southeast Asia, the Li people are believed to preserve some unique genetic …

While the interbreeding of Homo neanderthalensis (hereafter Neanderthal) and
Anatomically modern human (AMH) has been proven, owing to the shortage of fossils and …

Abstract The Tibetan Plateau is populated by diverse ethnic groups, but most of them are
underrepresented in genomics studies compared with the Tibetans (TIB). Here, to gain …

Over the past 2 decades, biologists have come to appreciate that hybridization, or genetic
exchange between distinct lineages, is remarkably common—not just in particular lineages …

China, with its large geographic span, possesses rich genetic diversity across vast frontier
regions in addition to the Han Chinese majority. Importantly, demographic events and …

Abstract Background Hmong–Mien (HM) speakers are linguistically related and live
primarily in China, but little is known about their ancestral origins or the evolutionary …

Adaptive introgression (AI) facilitates local adaptation in a wide range of species. Many state-
of-the-art methods detect AI with ad-hoc approaches that identify summary statistic outliers …

The emergence of Homo sapiens in Eastern Asia is a topic of significant research interest.
However, well-preserved human fossils in secure, dateable contexts in this region are …

Previous research favours the idea that modern humans spread worldwide from Africa. For
instance, through autosomal diversity, a geographical area of origin for this worldwide …