Nature 431, 302-305 (16 September 2004) | doi:10.1038/nature02878; Received 28 April 2004; Accepted 20 July 2004
Genetic evidence supports demic diffusion of Han culture
Bo Wen1,2, Hui Li1, Daru Lu1, Xiufeng Song1, Feng Zhang1, Yungang He1, Feng Li1, Yang Gao1, Xianyun Mao1, Liang Zhang1, Ji Qian1, Jingze Tan1, Jianzhong Jin1, Wei Huang2, Ranjan Deka3, Bing Su1,3,4, Ranajit Chakraborty3 & Li Jin1,3
State Key Laboratory of Genetic Engineering and Center for Anthropological Studies, School of Life Sciences and Morgan-Tan International Center for Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
Chinese National Human Genome Center, Shanghai 201203, China
Center for Genome Information, Department of Environmental Health, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio 45267, USA
Key Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Evolution, Kunming Institute of Zoology, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650223, China
Correspondence to: Li Jin1,3 Email: lijin@fudan.edu.cn or li.jin@uc.edu
European Journal of Human Genetics (2008) 16, 705–717; doi:10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201998; published online 23 January 2008
A spatial analysis of genetic structure of human populations in China reveals distinct difference between maternal and paternal lineages
Fuzhong Xue1,2, Yi Wang1, Shuhua Xu1,3, Feng Zhang1, Bo Wen1, Xuesen Wu1, Ming Lu1, Ranjan Deka4, Ji Qian1 and Li Jin1,3
1MOE Key Laboratory of Contemporary Anthropology and Center for Evolutionary Biology, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
2Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Shandong University, Jinan, China
3Department of Computational Genomics, CAS-MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology, SIBS, CAS, Shanghai, China
4Department of Environmental Health, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA
Correspondence: Professor L Jin, MOE Key Laboratory of Contemporary Anthropology and Center for Evolutionary Biology, School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, 220 Handan Road, Shanghai 200433, China. Tel: +021 5566 4382; Fax: +021 5566 4388; E-mail: ljin007@gmail.com
Received 30 January 2007; Revised 4 December 2007; Accepted 11 December 2007; Published online 23 January 2008.