The occurrence of lung cancers is the highest in Xuanwei County, Yunnan province, China,
especially among nonsmoking women. Domestic combustion of smoky coal induces serious …

In this study, we collected blood samples from 1033 father–son pairs of a Han population
from Guangdong Province, Southern China, of which 1007 fathers were unrelated male …

The Zhuang are the largest minority group in China and the aboriginal people of the
Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Over thousands of years, the gene pool of the …

To study the population data of Y-chromosome STRs (Y-STRs) of Han population resided in
Hunan province, we analyzed haplotypes of 26 Y-STRs (DYS19, DYS385a/b, DYS389I …

To investigate the genetic polymorphism of Y chromosome short tandem repeat (Y-STR) loci
in Dong, Miao, Tujia, and Yao minority populations from Hunan Province, China. Fifty Y …

Y-chromosomal specific short tandem repeat (Y-STR) markers are inherited paternally, and
their haplotype distribution may be distinct from other populations of different geographic …

Twenty-three Y-STR loci (DYS576, DYS389I, DYS389 II, DYS448, DYS19, DYS391,
DYS481, DYS549, DYS533, DYS438, DYS437, DYS570, DYS635, DYS390, DYS439 …

Yunnan is one of the main residences of the Zhuang group which is one of the 55 ethnic
minorities in China. At present, there are relatively few researches on population genetics …

Hainan, an important province in the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road, is the second largest
island in China located in southernmost China (Fig. S1). The area of Hainan island is 3.54 …

The Uyghur population has experienced extensive interaction with European and Eastern
Asian populations historically. A set of high-resolution genetic markers could be useful to …