Reconstructing the ancestral gene pool to uncover the origins and genetic links of Hmong–Mien speakers

Abstract Background Hmong–Mien (HM) speakers are linguistically related and live primarily in China, but little is known about their ancestral origins or the evolutionary mechanism shaping their genomic diversity. In particular, the lack of whole-genome sequencing data on the Yao population has prev...

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Main Authors: Yang Gao, Xiaoxi Zhang, Hao Chen, Yan Lu, Sen Ma, Yajun Yang, Menghan Zhang, Shuhua Xu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2024-03-01
Series:BMC Biology
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-024-01838-9