Recent spread of a Y-chromosomal lineage in northern China and Mongolia.
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.
Xue
Yali
Y
The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, United Kingdom.
Zerjal
Tatiana
T
Bao
Weidong
W
Zhu
Suling
S
Lim
Si-Keun
SK
Shu
Qunfang
Q
Xu
Jiujin
J
Du
Ruofu
R
Fu
Songbin
S
Li
Pu
P
Yang
Huanming
H
Tyler-Smith
Chris
C
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
D005819:Genetic Markers