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Ancient DNA and multimethod dating confirm the late arrival of anatomically modern humans in southern China

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Human occupation of northern India spans the Toba super-eruption ~74,000 years ago

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Ancient DNA reveals two paternal lineages C2a1a1b1a/F3830 and C2b1b/F845 in past nomadic peoples distributed on the Mongolian Plateau

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Paleolithic to Bronze Age Siberians Reveal Connections with First Americans and across Eurasia

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(2020) Anders Bergström et al.   SCIENCE

Ancient DNA indicates human population shifts and admixture in northern and southern China

(2020) Melinda A. Yang et al.   SCIENCE

Ancient genomes from northern China suggest links between subsistence changes and human migration

(2020) Chao Ning et al.   Nature Communications

Genome-wide analysis of unrecognised ethnic group Chuanqing people revealing a close affinity with Southern Han Chinese

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Paleolithic genetic link between Southern China and Mainland Southeast Asia revealed by ancient mitochondrial genomes

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Contrasting Paternal and Maternal Genetic Histories of Thai and Lao Populations

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Phylogenetic evidence for Sino-Tibetan origin in northern China in the Late Neolithic

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Dated language phylogenies shed light on the ancestry of Sino-Tibetan

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Phylogeography of Y-chromosome haplogroup Q1a1a-M120, a paternal lineage connecting populations in Siberia and East Asia

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Shifts in the Genetic Landscape of the Western Eurasian Steppe Associated with the Beginning and End of the Scythian Dominance

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Palaeo-Eskimo genetic ancestry and the peopling of Chukotka and North America

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The population history of northeastern Siberia since the Pleistocene

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Ancient Genomes Reveal Yamnaya-Related Ancestry and a Potential Source of Indo-European Speakers in Iron Age Tianshan

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The formation of human populations in South and Central Asia

(2019) Vagheesh M. Narasimhan et al.   SCIENCE

Ancient DNA from the skeletons of Roopkund Lake reveals Mediterranean migrants in India

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Paternal Y chromosomal genotyping reveals multiple large-scale admixtures in the formation of Lolo-Burmese–speaking populations in southwest China

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The genome of an ancient Rouran individual reveals an important paternal lineage in the Donghu population

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New genetic evidence of affinities and discontinuities between bronze age Siberian populations

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New insights from Thailand into the maternal genetic history of Mainland Southeast Asia

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Reconstruction of Y-chromosome phylogeny reveals two neolithic expansions of Tibeto-Burman populations

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137 ancient human genomes from across the Eurasian steppes

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The first horse herders and the impact of early Bronze Age steppe expansions into Asia

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Ancient genomes document multiple waves of migration in Southeast Asian prehistory

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The prehistoric peopling of Southeast Asia

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Bronze Age population dynamics and the rise of dairy pastoralism on the eastern Eurasian steppe

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The Y-chromosome haplogroup C3*-F3918, likely attributed to the Mongol Empire, can be traced to a 2500-year-old nomadic group

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New progress in understanding the origins of modern humans in China

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Ancestry and demography and descendants of Iron Age nomads of the Eurasian Steppe

(2017) Martina Unterländer et al.   Nature Communications

Reconstructing genetic history of Siberian and Northeastern European populations

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Genetic diversity of two Neolithic populations provides evidence of farming expansions in North China

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A partial nuclear genome of the Jomons who lived 3000 years ago in Fukushima, Japan

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Genomic insights into the peopling of the Southwest Pacific

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The Simons Genome Diversity Project: 300 genomes from 142 diverse populations

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Genomic analyses inform on migration events during the peopling of Eurasia

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Long-term genetic stability and a high-altitude East Asian origin for the peoples of the high valleys of the Himalayan arc

(2016) Choongwon Jeong et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Molecular Genealogy of a Mongol Queen’s Family and Her Possible Kinship with Genghis Khan

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Low Mitochondrial DNA Diversity in an Ancient Population from China: Insight into Social Organization at the Fujia Site

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The earliest unequivocally modern humans in southern China

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Ancient DNA Reveals That the Genetic Structure of the Northern Han Chinese Was Shaped Prior to 3,000 Years Ago

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Caveats about interpretation of ancient chicken mtDNAs from northern China

(2015) Min-Sheng Peng et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Questioning new answers regarding Holocene chicken domestication in China

(2015) Joris Peters et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Y-chromosome diversity suggests southern origin and Paleolithic backwave migration of Austro-Asiatic speakers from eastern Asia to the Indian subcontinent

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Ancient DNA evidence reveals that the Y chromosome haplogroup Q1a1 admixed into the Han Chinese 3,000 years ago

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Ancient DNA reveals a migration of the ancient Di-qiang populations into Xinjiang as early as the early Bronze Age

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Strong genetic admixture in the Altai at the Middle Bronze Age revealed by uniparental and ancestry informative markers

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Ancient human genomes suggest three ancestral populations for present-day Europeans

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Altitude adaptation in Tibetans caused by introgression of Denisovan-like DNA

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Genome sequence of a 45,000-year-old modern human from western Siberia

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Identification of kinship and occupant status in Mongolian noble burials of the Yuan Dynasty through a multidisciplinary approach

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Y Chromosomes of 40% Chinese Descend from Three Neolithic Super-Grandfathers

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Early Holocene chicken domestication in northern China

(2014) Hai Xiang et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Y Chromosome analysis of prehistoric human populations in the West Liao River Valley, Northeast China

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Upper Palaeolithic Siberian genome reveals dual ancestry of Native Americans

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The complete genome sequence of a Neanderthal from the Altai Mountains

(2013) Kay Prüfer et al.   NATURE

Ash from the Toba supereruption in Lake Malawi shows no volcanic winter in East Africa at 75 ka

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Ancient Admixture in Human History

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A High-Coverage Genome Sequence from an Archaic Denisovan Individual

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Ancient DNA evidence supports the contribution of Di-Qiang people to the han Chinese gene pool

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A western Eurasian male is found in 2000-year-old elite Xiongnu cemetery in Northeast Mongolia

(2010) Kijeong Kim et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY

Evidence that a West-East admixed population lived in the Tarim Basin as early as the early Bronze Age

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The Human Genetic History of East Asia: Weaving a Complex Tapestry

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Y-chromosome distributions among populations in Northwest China identify significant contribution from Central Asian pastoralists and lesser influence of western Eurasians

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Genetic origin of Kadai-speaking Gelong people on Hainan island viewed from Y chromosomes

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Ancient DNA from nomads in 2500-year-old archeological sites of Pengyang, China

(2010) Yong-Bin Zhao et al.   JOURNAL OF HUMAN GENETICS

Global distribution of Y-chromosome haplogroup C reveals the prehistoric migration routes of African exodus and early settlement in East Asia

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Major East-West Division Underlies Y Chromosome Stratification across Indonesia

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Extended Y Chromosome Investigation Suggests Postglacial Migrations of Modern Humans into East Asia via the Northern Route

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New data and new issues for the study of origin of rice agriculture in China

(2010) Zhijun Zhao   Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences

Earliest domestication of common millet (Panicum miliaceum) in East Asia extended to 10,000 years ago

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Mapping Human Genetic Diversity in Asia

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Origin and evolution of two Yugur sub-clans in Northwest China: a case study in paternal genetic landscape

(2008) Ruixia Zhou et al.   ANNALS OF HUMAN BIOLOGY

Y chromosome evidence of earliest modern human settlement in East Asia and multiple origins of Tibetan and Japanese populations

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Paternal genetic affinity between western Austronesians and Daic populations

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The Impact of the Austronesian Expansion: Evidence from mtDNA and Y Chromosome Diversity in the Admiralty Islands of Melanesia

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