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SUBMITTER: Yao HB
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5141421 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yao Hong-Bing HB Wang Chuan-Chao CC Tao Xiaolan X Shang Lei L Wen Shao-Qing SQ Zhu Bofeng B Kang Longli L Jin Li L Li Hui H
Scientific reports 20161207
There is a long-going debate on the genetic origin of Chinese Muslim populations, such as Uygur, Dongxiang, and Hui. However, genetic information for those Muslim populations except Uygur is extremely limited. In this study, we investigated the genetic structure and ancestry of Chinese Muslims by analyzing 15 autosomal short tandem repeats in 652 individuals from Dongxiang, Hui, and Han Chinese populations in Gansu province. Both genetic distance and Bayesian-clustering methods showed significan ...[more]