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Paternal and maternal genetic analysis of a desert Keriyan population: Keriyans are not the descendants of Guge Tibetans.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2014
Chen Kaixu, Ablimit Abdurahman, Ling Fengjun, Wu Weiwei, Shan Wenjuan, Qin Wenbei, Keweier Tuerhong, Zuo Hongli, Zhang Fuchun, Ma Zhenghai, Zheng Xiufen
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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 com...
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