title: Population genetics for Y-STRs haplotypes of Chinese Ewenki ethnic minority group.
abstract: Chinese Ewenki ethnic minority group, with a population of 26,300 in a statistical survey conducted in 2000, has a lifestyle of nomad, and is distributed across seven counties in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and in Nahe County of Heilongjiang Province of China. The Ewenki people have no written script but a spoken language with three dialects belonging to the Manchu-Tungusic group of the Altai language family. Raising reindeers is the key livelihood of Ewenkis.
authors.affiliation: The Key Laboratory of Public Health of Ministry for Forensic Sciences, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Yan Ta West Road No. 76 Xi'an 710061, Shaanxi, PR China. zhubofeng@126.com
authors.forename: Bofeng
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.forename: Chunmei
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Shen
authors.forename: Zhaozhong
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Gong
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.forename: Gong
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Hanyuan
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Xiaosong
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Yongfeng
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: He
authors.forename: Jie
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Zhao
authors.forename: Yao
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Liu
mesh_terms: D002681:China; D041322:Chromosomes, Human, Y; D016172:DNA Fingerprinting / Q000379:methods; D005006:Ethnicity / Q000235:genetics*; D005787:Gene Frequency; D005828:Genetics, Population; D006239:Haplotypes; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D020080:Tandem Repeat Sequences