Genetic structure and forensic characteristics of Tibeto-Burman-speaking Ü-Tsang and Kham Tibetan Highlanders revealed by 27 Y-chromosomal STRs

• Published in: Scientific reports Vol. 9; no. 1; pp. 7739 - 10
• Main Authors: He, Guanglin, Wang, Zheng, Su, Yongdong, Zou, Xing, Wang, Mengge, Chen, Xu, Gao, Bo, Liu, Jing, Wang, Shouyu, Hou, Yiping
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 23.05.2019; Nature Publishing Group; Nature Portfolio
• Subjects: 45/22; 45/29; 45/77; 631/181/2474; 631/208/457/649; Adaptation, Biological - genetics; Adult; Altitude; Archaeology; Asian Continental Ancestry Group - genetics; Biological Evolution; Chromosomes, Human, Y - genetics; Ethnic Groups - genetics; Evolution, Molecular; Forensic science; Gene Frequency - genetics; Genetic diversity; Genetic relationship; Genetic structure; Genetic Variation - genetics; Genetics; Genetics, Population - methods; Genotype; Haplotypes; Haplotypes - genetics; Humanities and Social Sciences; Humans; Hypoxia; Male; Microsatellite Repeats - genetics; Multidimensional scaling; multidisciplinary; Paternity; Phylogeny; Population studies; Principal Component Analysis; Principal components analysis; Scaling; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Sex crimes; Sexual assault; Short tandem repeats; Tibet - ethnology; Y chromosomes; Tibet

Culturally diverse Tibetans (Ü-Tsang, Kham and Ando) harboring a unique molecular mechanism that allows them to successfully adapt to hypoxic environments in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau have been a subject of great interest in medical genetics, linguistics, archeology and forensic science. However, fo...