Ancient DNA Reveals That the Genetic Structure of the Northern Han Chinese Was Shaped Prior to 3,000 Years Ago

Yong-Bin Zhao; Ye Zhang; Quan-Chao Zhang; Hong-Jie Li; Ying-Qiu Cui; Zhi Xu; Li Jin; Hui Zhou; Hong Zhu

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0125676

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Ancient DNA Reveals That the Genetic Structure of the Northern Han Chinese Was Shaped Prior to 3,000 Years Ago

Yong-Bin Zhao ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Yong-Bin Zhao, Ye Zhang

Affiliations College of Life Science, Jilin University, Changchun, China, College of Life Science, Jilin Normal University, Siping, China
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Ye Zhang ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Yong-Bin Zhao, Ye Zhang

Affiliation College of Life Science, Jilin University, Changchun, China
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Quan-Chao Zhang,

Affiliation Laboratory of Ancient DNA, Research Center for Chinese Frontier Archaeology of Jilin University, Changchun, China
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Hong-Jie Li,

Affiliation Laboratory of Ancient DNA, Research Center for Chinese Frontier Archaeology of Jilin University, Changchun, China
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Ying-Qiu Cui,

Affiliation College of Life Science, Jilin University, Changchun, China
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Zhi Xu,

Affiliation Ministry of Education (MOE) Key Laboratory of Contemporary Anthropology and Center for Evolutionary Biology, School of Life Sciences and Institutes of Biomedical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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Li Jin,

Affiliation Ministry of Education (MOE) Key Laboratory of Contemporary Anthropology and Center for Evolutionary Biology, School of Life Sciences and Institutes of Biomedical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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Hui Zhou ,

* E-mail: zhouhui@jlu.edu.cn

Affiliations College of Life Science, Jilin University, Changchun, China, Laboratory of Ancient DNA, Research Center for Chinese Frontier Archaeology of Jilin University, Changchun, China
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Hong Zhu

Affiliation Ministry of Education (MOE) Key Laboratory of Contemporary Anthropology and Center for Evolutionary Biology, School of Life Sciences and Institutes of Biomedical Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
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Ancient DNA Reveals That the Genetic Structure of the Northern Han Chinese Was Shaped Prior to 3,000 Years Ago

Yong-Bin Zhao,
Ye Zhang,
Quan-Chao Zhang,
Hong-Jie Li,
Ying-Qiu Cui,
Zhi Xu,
Li Jin,
Hui Zhou,
Hong Zhu

Published: May 4, 2015
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0125676

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