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Published online 24 October 2005 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news051024-1
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Y chromosomes reveal founding father
Did conquest and concubines spread one man's genes across Asia?
About 1.5 million men in northern China and Mongolia may be descended from a single man, according to a study based on Y chromosome genetics1.
Historical records suggest that this man may be Giocangga, who lived in the mid-1500s and whose grandson founded the Qing dynasty, which ruled China from 1644 to 1912.
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