TY - JOUR
T1 - Y-chromosome evidence for a northward migration of modern humans into eastern Asia during the last Ice Age
AU - Su, Bing
AU - Xiao, Junhua
AU - Underhill, Peter
AU - Deka, Ranjan
AU - Zhang, Weiling
AU - Akey, Joshua
AU - Huang, Wei
AU - Shen, Di
AU - Lu, Daru
AU - Luo, Jingchun
AU - Chu, Jiayou
AU - Tan, Jiazhen
AU - Shen, Peidong
AU - Davis, Ron
AU - Cavalli-Sforza, Luca
AU - Chakraborty, Ranajit
AU - Xiong, Momiao
AU - Du, Ruofu
AU - Oefner, Peter
AU - Chen, Zhu
AU - Jin, Li
N1 - Funding Information:
This research and the sample collection were sponsored primarily by the Chinese National Natural Science Foundation. We are grateful to Dr. S. H. Chen, who provided some of the DNA samples in this study. L.J. was supported by National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants and the Li Foundation. J.X., D.L., J.C., R. Du, and Z.C. were supported by a grant from the National Natural Science Foundation of China. J.C. was also supported by the Chinese Medical Board, U.S.A. B.S., R.C., P.U., P.O., P.S., R. Davis, and L.C.-S. were supported by NIH grants. R. Deka was supported by NIH and National Science Foundation grants.
PY - 1999
Y1 - 1999
N2 - The timing and nature of the arrival and the subsequent expansion of modern humans into eastern Asia remains controversial. Using Y-chromosome biallelic markers, we investigated the ancient human-migration patterns in eastern Asia. Our data indicate that southern populations in eastern Asia are much more polymorphic than northern populations, which have only a subset of the southern haplotypes. This pattern indicates that the first settlement of modern humans in eastern Asia occurred in mainland Southeast Asia during the last Ice Age, coinciding with the absence of human fossils in eastern Asia, 50,000-100,000 years ago. After the initial peopling, a great northward migration extended into northern China and Siberia.
AB - The timing and nature of the arrival and the subsequent expansion of modern humans into eastern Asia remains controversial. Using Y-chromosome biallelic markers, we investigated the ancient human-migration patterns in eastern Asia. Our data indicate that southern populations in eastern Asia are much more polymorphic than northern populations, which have only a subset of the southern haplotypes. This pattern indicates that the first settlement of modern humans in eastern Asia occurred in mainland Southeast Asia during the last Ice Age, coinciding with the absence of human fossils in eastern Asia, 50,000-100,000 years ago. After the initial peopling, a great northward migration extended into northern China and Siberia.
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U2 - 10.1086/302680
DO - 10.1086/302680
M3 - Article
C2 - 10577926
AN - SCOPUS:0033358602
SN - 0002-9297
VL - 65
SP - 1718
EP - 1724
JO - American Journal of Human Genetics
JF - American Journal of Human Genetics
IS - 6
ER -