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A Map of East Asia

Image source: https://www.uwtsd.ac.uk/east-asia/

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Mongolia

Buddhist Monk and Young Novitiates in the XXXX Temple, Ulan Baatar, Mongolia

Photo credit: T.G. Schurr

China

Map of Ethnic Groups in China

Image source: United States Central Intelligence Agency, 1983. The map shows the distribution of ethnolinguistic groups according to the historical majority ethnic groups by region. This does not represent the current distribution due to age-long internal migration and assimilation.

Publications

Thornton CP, Schurr TG. 2004. Genes, language, and culture: An example from the Tarim Basin. Oxford J Archeol 23(1): 83-106.

Gan R-J, Pan SL, Mustavich LF, Qin Z-D, Cai X-Y, Qian J, Liu C-W, Peng J-H, Li S-L, Xu J-S, Jin L, Li H, The Genographic Consortium. 2008. Pinghua population as an exception of Han Chinese’s coherent genetic structure. J Hum Genet 53: 303–313.

Qin Z, Yang Y, Kang L, Cai X, Zhu D, Fei D, Li S, Jin L, Li H, The Genographic Consortium. 2010. A mitochondrial revelation of early human migrations to the Tibetan Plateau before and after the last glacial maximum. Am J Phys Anthropol 143: 555–569.

Schurr TG, Pipes L. 2011. The prehistory of Mongolian populations: Evidence from cranio-facial, dental trait and genetic studies. In: Sabloff P, editor. Mapping Mongolia: Situating Mongolia in the World from Geologic Time to the Present, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum Press, pp. 134-165.

Cai X, Qin Z, Wen B, Xu S, Wang Y, Lu Y, Wei L, Wang C, Li S, Huang X, Jin L, Li H, The Genographic Consortium. 2011. Human migration through bottlenecks from Southeast Asia into East Asia during last glacial maximum revealed by Y-chromosomes. PLoS ONE 6: e24282.

Yang K, Zheng H, Qin Z, Lu Y, Farina SE, Li S, Jin L, Li D, Li H, The Genographic Consortium. 2011. Positive selection on mitochondrial M7 lineages among the Gelong people in Hainan. J Hum Genet 56: 253-256.

Kang L, Lu Y, Wang C, Hu K, Chen F, Li S, Jin L, Li H, The Genographic Consortium. 2012. Y-chromosome haplogroup O3 diversity in Sino-Tibetan populations reveals two migration routes into the eastern Himalayas. Ann Hum Genet 76(1): 92-99.

Lu Y, Qin Z, Wen B, Jin L, Li H, The Genographic Consortium. 2012. Mitochondrial origin of the matriarchal Mosuo people in China. Mitochondrial DNA 23(1): 13-19.

Wang C-C, Yan S, Qin Z-D, Lu Y, Ding Q-L, Wei L-H, Li S-L, Yang Y-J, Jin L, Li H, The Genographic Consortium.^. 2013. Late Neolithic expansion of ancient Chinese revealed by Y-chromosome haplogroup O3a1c-002611. J Syst Evol 51(3): 280-286.

Deng Q-Y, Wang C-C, Wang X-Q, Wang L-X, Wang Z-Y, Wu W-J, Li H, The Genographic Consortium. 2013. Genetic affinity between the Kam-Sui speaking Chadong and Mulam people. J Syst Evol 51(3): 263-270.

Li D, Wang C-C, Yang K, Qin Z-D, Lu Y, Lin X-J, Li H, The Genographic Consortium. 2013. Hainan indigenous substitute for genetic lineages of Champa exile Utsat people. J Syst Evol 51(3): 287-294.

Lu Y, Pan S-L, Qin S-M, Qin Z-D, Wang C-C, Gan R-J, Li H, The Genographic Consortium. 2013. Genetic evidence for the multiple origins of Pinghua Chinese. J Syst Evol 51(3): 271-279.

Schurr TG. 2014. The genetic legacy of Genghis Khan. In: Fitzhugh W, Rossabi M, Honeychurch W, editors. Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire, Washington DC: Arctic Studies Center and Odyssey Books, pp. 275-277.