Genetic evidence supports demic diffusion of Han culture

Nature

Volumn 431, Issue 7006, 2004, Pages 302-305

  Wen, Bo ^a,b   Hui, Li ^a   Lu, Daru ^a   Song, Xiufeng ^a   Zhang, Feng ^a   He, Yungang ^a   Li, Feng ^a   Gao, Yang ^a   Mao, Xianyun ^a   Zhang, Liang ^a   Qian, Ji ^a   Tan, Jingze ^a   Jin, Jianzhong ^a   Huang, Wei ^b   Deka, Ranjan ^c   Su, Bing ^a,c,d   Chakraborty, Ranajit ^c   Jin, Li ^a,c  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CHINESE NATIONAL HUMAN GENOME CENTER AT SHANGHAI   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d KUNMING INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHROMOSOMES; DIFFUSION; DNA; FORMAL LANGUAGES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

CULTURAL DIFFUSION MODEL; DEMIC DIFFUSION MODEL; GENETIC EXCHANGE;

GENETIC ENGINEERING;

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

CULTURE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LANGUAGE;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CULTURAL DIFFUSION MODEL; DEMIC DIFFUSION MODEL; DNA DETERMINATION; ETHNIC GROUP; EUROPE; FEMALE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HAN CULTURE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LANGUAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; POPULATION MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DESIGN; Y CHROMOSOME;

AGRICULTURE; CHINA; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, Y; CULTURE; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; HAPLOTYPES; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA;

EID: 4644225073     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02878     Document Type: Article

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