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Maternal genetic structure and population affinities of the Sichuan Han Chinese based on whole mitochondrial genomes.
BMC genomics - 19 Feb 2026
Jiang Xiucheng, Chen Cui, Zhao Mei, Hu Lingling, Shi Lan, Tang Tao, Lv Bingbing, Ji Simeng, Jia Lihua, Pang Jiyu, Ma Jinyue, Mu Bo, Yang Junbao
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BACKGROUND: Maternally inherited, high-copy, non-recombining and fast-mutating, mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is exploited in anthropology to trace maternal ancestry and in genetics to reconstruct population histories and study disease susceptibility. The Han Chinese represent the largest ethnic group in the nation and are spread across the country in vast numbers, and their genetics have been extensively studied....
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