title: Recent spread of a Y-chromosomal lineage in northern China and Mongolia.
abstract: We have identified a Y-chromosomal lineage that is unusually frequent in northeastern China and Mongolia, in which a haplotype cluster defined by 15 Y short tandem repeats was carried by approximately 3.3% of the males sampled from East Asia. The most recent common ancestor of this lineage lived 590 +/- 340 years ago (mean +/- SD), and it was detected in Mongolians and six Chinese minority populations. We suggest that the lineage was spread by Qing Dynasty (1644-1912) nobility, who were a privileged elite sharing patrilineal descent from Giocangga (died 1582), the grandfather of Manchu leader Nurhaci, and whose documented members formed approximately 0.4% of the minority population by the end of the dynasty.
authors.affiliation: The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Yali
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Xue
authors.forename: Tatiana
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Zerjal
authors.forename: Weidong
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Bao
authors.forename: Suling
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Zhu
authors.forename: Si-Keun
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Lim
authors.forename: Qunfang
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Shu
authors.forename: Jiujin
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Ruofu
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Du
authors.forename: Songbin
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Fu
authors.forename: Pu
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Li
authors.forename: Huanming
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Chris
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Tyler-Smith
mesh_terms: D000483:Alleles; D044466:Asian People / Q000235:genetics*; D002681:China; D002877:Chromosomes, Human; D041322:Chromosomes, Human, Y; D005006:Ethnicity / Q000235:genetics*; D005819:Genetic Markers; D014644:Genetic Variation; D005828:Genetics, Population; D005843:Geography; D006239:Haplotypes; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008986:Mongolia; D020641:Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide; D011157:Population Dynamics; D012641:Selection, Genetic; D020080:Tandem Repeat Sequences; D013995:Time
chemical_list: D005819:Genetic Markers