Human environment - Towards a genetic history of China

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作者
Piazza, A [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Turin, Dipartimento Genet Biol & Biochim, I-10126 Turin, Italy
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10.1038/27071
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O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
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07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
One-fifth of the world's population - that's 1.2 billion people — is Chinese. But, although unified politically and linguistically (800 million people speak Mandarin), there are groups of Chinese that are quite different from each other genetically, according to the most comprehensive genetic analysis of China ever made. These results bear on models of the origins of East Asian peoples.
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