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Different matrilineal contributions to genetic structure of ethnic groups in the silk road region in china.
Molecular biology and evolution - 1 Dec 2004
Yao Yong-Gang, Kong Qing-Peng, Wang Cheng-Ye, Zhu Chun-Ling, Zhang Ya-Ping
Abstract excerpt
Previous studies have shown that there were extensive genetic admixtures in the Silk Road region. In the present study, we analyzed 252 mtDNAs of five ethnic groups (Uygur, Uzbek, Kazak, Mongolian, and Hui) from Xinjiang Province, China (through which the Silk Road once ran) together with some reported data from the adjacent regions in Central Asia. In a simple way, we classified the mtDNAs into different...
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