1. Forensic Features and Population Genetic Structure of Dong, Yi, Han, and Chuanqing Human Populations in Southwest China Inferred From Insertion/Deletion Markers
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Lan-Hai Wei, Jiang Huang, Han Zhang, Yubo Liu, Jianxin Guo, Dan Peng, Chuan-Chao Wang, Jingyan Ji, Jin Sun, Jinxing Ba, Qiyan Wang, Xiaomin Yang, Guanglin He, Zheng Ren, Meiqing Yang, Rong Hu, and Hongling Zhang
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0301 basic medicine ,lcsh:QH426-470 ,Population ,Ethnic group ,Biology ,Chuanqing human population ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Genetics ,Insertion deletion ,China ,education ,Indel ,Genetics (clinical) ,Original Research ,education.field_of_study ,forensic genetics ,Investigator® DIPplex Kit ,population structure ,Guizhou human population ,Forensic science ,Dong human population ,lcsh:Genetics ,030104 developmental biology ,Han human population ,Evolutionary biology ,030220 oncology & carcinogenesis ,Genetic structure ,Molecular Medicine ,Identification (biology) ,Yi human population - Abstract
Guizhou province in southwest China has abundant genetic and cultural diversities, but the forensic features and genetic structure of Guizhou populations remain poorly understood due to the sparse sampling of present-day populations. Here, we present 30 insertion/deletion polymorphisms (InDels) data of 591 human individuals collected from four populations, Dong, Yi, Han, and Chuanqing residing in Guizhou. We calculated the forensic parameters of 30 InDel loci and found that this panel meets the efficiency of forensic personal identification based on the high combined power of discrimination, but it could only be used as a complementary tool in the parentage testing because of the lower combined probability of exclusion values. The studied populations are genetically closer related to geographically adjacent or linguistically related populations in southern China, such as the Tai-Kadai and Hmong-Mien speaking groups. The unrecognized ethnic Chuanqing people show an additional genetic affinity with Han Chinese, highlighting the role of possible military immigrations in their origin.
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- 2020