Abstract The Iron Age of highland Pang Mapha, northwestern Thailand, is characterised by a
mortuary practice known as Log Coffin culture. Dating between 2300 and 1000 years ago …

Thailand and Laos, located in the center of Mainland Southeast Asia (MSEA), harbor diverse
ethnolinguistic groups encompassing all five language families of MSEA: Tai-Kadai (TK) …

Abstract Background The underrepresentation of Hmong-Mien (HM) people in Asian
genomic studies has hindered our comprehensive understanding of the full landscape of …

Previous genome-wide studies have reported South Asian (SA) ancestry in several
Mainland Southeast Asian (MSEA) populations; however, additional details concerning …

Southern China is the birthplace of rice-cultivating agriculture and different language
families and has also witnessed various human migrations that facilitated cultural diffusions …

Background Non-recombining regions of the Y-chromosome recorded the evolutionary
traces of male human populations and are inherited haplotype-dependently and male …

The history of people's movements and interactions shapes both genetic and linguistic
variation. Genes and languages are transmitted separately and their distributions reflect …

Southern China was the original center of multiple ancestral populations related to modern
Hmong-Mien, Tai-Kadai, Austroasiatic, and Austronesian people. More recent genetic …

The evolutionary dynamics of mitochondrial DNA within the Thai population were
comprehensively explored with a specific focus on the influence of South Asian admixture. A …

Southwest China was the crossroad for the initial settler people of East Asia, which shows
the highest diversity in languages and genetics. This region played a significant role in the …