Qiuxia Sun, Mengge Wang, Tao Lu, Shuhan Duan, Yan Liu, Jing Chen, Zhiyong Wang, Yuntao Sun, Xiangping Li, Shaomei Wang, Liuyi Lu, Liping Hu, Libing Yun, Junbao Yang, Jiangwei Yan, Shengjie Nie, Yanfeng Zhu, Gang Chen, Chuan-Chao Wang, Chao Liu, Guanglin He, Renkuan Tang
BACKGROUND: The underrepresentation of human genomic resources from Southern Chinese populations limited their health equality in the precision medicine era and complete understanding of their genetic formation, admixture, and adaptive features. Besides, linguistical and genetic evidence supported the controversial hypothesis of their origin processes. One hotspot case was from the Chinese Guangxi Pinghua Han people (GPH), whose language was significantly similar to Southern Chinese dialects but whose uniparental gene pool was phylogenetically associated with the indigenous Tai-Kadai (TK) people...
March 6, 2024: BMC Biology