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The massive assimilation of indigenous East Asian populations in the origin of Muslim Hui people inferred from paternal Y chromosome
Author(s) -
Wang ChuanChao,
Lu Yan,
Kang Longli,
Ding Huiqian,
Yan Shi,
Guo Jianxin,
Zhang Qun,
Wen ShaoQing,
Wang LingXiang,
Zhang Manfei,
Tong Xinzhu,
Huang Xiufeng,
Nie Shengjie,
Deng Qiongying,
Zhu Bofeng,
Jin Li,
Li Hui
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
american journal of physical anthropology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.146
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1096-8644
pISSN - 0002-9483
DOI - 10.1002/ajpa.23823
Subject(s) - east asia , indigenous , gene flow , china , biology , genetics , demography , geography , evolutionary biology , gene , genetic variation , sociology , ecology , archaeology
Objectives The Hui people are the adherents of Muslim faith and distributing throughout China. There are two contrasting hypotheses about the origin and diversification of the Hui people, namely, the demic diffusion involving the mass movement of people or simple cultural diffusion. Materials and methods We collected 621 unrelated male individuals from 23 Hui populations all over China. We comprehensively genotyped more than 100 informative Y‐chromosomal single nucleotide polymorphisms and 17 Y‐chromosomal short tandem repeats (STRs) on those samples. Results Co‐analyzed with published worldwide populations, our results suggest the origin of Hui people has involved massive assimilation of indigenous East Asians with about 70% in total of the paternal ancestry could be traced back to East Asia and the left 30% to various regions in West Eurasia. Discussion The genetic structure of the extant Hui populations was primarily shaped by the indigenous East Asian populations as they contribute the majority part of the paternal lineages of Hui people. The West Eurasian admixture was probably a sex‐biased male‐driven process since we have not found such a high proportion of West Eurasian gene flow on autosomal STRs and maternal mtDNA.