Posted on 01/29/2015 1:19:28 PM PST by SunkenCiv
In addition to Genghis Khan and his male descendants, researchers have previously identified the founders of two other highly successful Y-chromosome lineages: one that began in China with Giocangga, a Qinq Dynasty ruler who died in 15823, and another belonging to the medieval Uí Néill dynasty in Ireland.
Jobling's team made a systematic search for genetic founders by analysing the Y chromosomes of more than 5,000 men from 127 populations spanning Asia... because lots of data were available and there was already evidence of such lineages. The team identified 11 Y-chromosome sequences that were each shared by more than 20 of the 5,321 genomes. The researchers used DNA differences in the shared sequences, which accumulate over time from random mutations, to determine approximately when the founder of the lineage lived. They tracked back the geographical origins of the lineages by assuming that the founding men had lived in the regions where their genotypes were most prevalent and diverse.
...The other nine lineages originated throughout Asia, from the Middle East to southeast Asia, dating to between 2100 bc and ad 700. Jobling warns that these dates come with huge margins of error, but he notes that the estimates for the lineages attributed to Khan and Giocangga are very close to those of past studies.
The founders who lived between 2100 bc and 300 bc existed in both sedentary agricultural societies and nomadic cultures in the Middle East, India, southeast Asia and central Asia. Their dates coincide with the emergence of hierarchical, authoritarian societies in Asia during the Bronze Age, such as the Babylonians. Three lineages dating to more recent times were all linked to nomadic groups in northeast China and Mongolia. These included the lineages linked to Genghis Khan and Giocangga, plus a third line dating to around ad 850.
(Excerpt) Read more at nature.com ...
Human populations are tightly interwoven
Nature | September 29, 2004 | Michael Hopkin
Posted on 09/30/2004 11:17:34 AM PDT by AZLiberty
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Genghis Khan Do it.
Wow, Gengis Khan is in the running with Screamin’ Jay Hawkins.
And Wilt the Stilt.
Some impressive lists you have compiled.
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Ok, the 3 is really a superscript indicating a footnote.
I guess that was a typo..
I read that GK killed 30 to 40 million Chinese so that there would be more pasture land for horses. ANy confirmation on that?
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I read that as 158BC
I got the energy up to look at the original article. The 3 is a superscript indicating a footnote.
It might not have been Genghis Khan who impregnated so may women in the past. His sons and grandsons would have been of high rank, and would have had lots of concubines.
ROFL!
Sometimes i am naughty. LOL!
well, sure - it was only a joke.
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