Human Y-chromosomes are characterized by nonrecombination and uniparental
inheritance, carrying traces of human history evolution and admixture. Large-scale …

Invented in the 19th century as an allegory for large-scale human interaction across Eurasia,
the idea of “the Silk Road” continues to shape archaeological investigations of trade, travel …

The Mongolian people, one of the Mongolic-speaking populations, are native to the
Mongolian Plateau in North China and southern Siberia. Many ancient DNA studies recently …

As a major part of the modern Trans-Eurasian or Altaic language family, most of the
Mongolic and Tungusic languages were mainly spoken in northern China, Mongolia, and …

Background The majority of the Kazakhs from South Kazakhstan belongs to the 12 clans of
the Senior Zhuz. According to traditional genealogy, nine of these clans have a common …

The Qiang population mainly lived in Beichuan Qiang Autonomous County of Sichuan
Province. It is one of the nomads in China, distributed along the Minjiang River. The Qiang …

Accumulating evidence suggests that the phenotypes of human males were shaped by
contest competition, the mode of sexual selection in which mating opportunities are obtained …

Improving the resolution of the current widely used Y-chromosomal short tandem repeat (Y-
STR) dataset is of great importance for forensic investigators, and the current approach is …

Kalmyks, the only Mongolic-speaking population in Europe, live in the southeast of the
European Plain, in Russia. They adhere to Buddhism and speak a dialect of the Mongolian …

The expansion of modern humans to the American continent after the Last Glacial Maximum
led the way to the present-day distribution of American aborigines. Recent advances in …