| "C*" Y STR cluster of Zhong Hua et al. 2010 | |
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| black man | Mar 20 2009, 06:06:11 PM Post #1 |
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According to supplementary table 1, the samples used for fig. 4 should be categorised as follows: - "Altaic" (n=7): --- 5 Ningxia Hui --- 2 Xinjiang Xibe - HM/TK (n=14): --- 7 Guangxi Yao --- 2 Hubei Tujia --- 2 Guizhou Shui --- 1 Guangxi Mulao --- 1 Guangxi Zhuang --- 1 Guizhou Buyi - "Southern Han" (n=3): --- 2 Guizhou Han --- 1 Yunnan Han - Indonesian (n=2): --- 1 Macassarese --- 1 Papuan from Irian Jaya So the Hui and southern Han have the same ht as most HM and TK samples in this para-group. And geographically it looks like this: - Guangxi: 9 - Guizhou and Ningxia: 5 each - Hubei and Xinjiang: 2 each - Macassar and Irian Jaya: 1 each I.e., the Indonesian and Xibe individuals are the geographically most remote samples, no matter whether you associate the Xibe with Xinjiang or with Dongbei. Apart from that, the distance of the latter from the other samples is confirmed by their hts. Thus, I'll ignore them when I'll check the ethnic diversity of the other samples: - Guizhou and Guangxi: 3 each - Hubei, Ningxia and Yunnan: 1 each Of these, Ningxia is not only relatively remote but only represented by one relatively mobile ethnic category, the Hui, who don't have any ht diversity as for "C*". For this reason, I consider the region of western Hubei, Guizhou, Guangxi and Yunnan to be the most likely "home" of the "C*" cluster of Zhong et al. 2010 when ignoring the Xibe and Indonesian samples. And this is the distribution of the remaining hts according to linguistic groups: - HM: 3 hts, 1 population - TK: 2 hts, 4 populations - TB: 2 hts, 1 population - Sinitic: 1 ht, 2 populations Now, these are mostly samples likely to be from mountainous parts of China with the Zhuang individual possibly being the only exception. I.e., the hypothetical ancestors of the cluster might have withdrawn to Guizhou or to a part of China more or less neighbouring it and spread from there. But could there be any present-day population which retained relatively many features of such hypothetical ancestors? At this point I'll just give up checking ht lists. I'll just note down that the major ht in this cluster as well as one derivative or ancestral ht occur in both the Yao and the Tujia samples. Apart from that, there seems to be one Shui ht two steps away from the major ht. Eventually, my trains of thought and the respective questions: - Yao patrilocality might have supported the spread of this ht cluster into Guizhou. But if so, why do no less that four different TK populations have the major ht and one apparent derivative? - Yao patrilocality might just have supported the development of ht diversity within this cluster. But from where (and from which population) could the oldest ht of this cluster be in case that it was non-Yao? - we know about Miao neighbouring Tujia. But what could the relationship between Yao and Tujia have been like? Who was more likely to have assimilated whom? |
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