Editorial: The genetic history of human populations along the ancient silk road

Xin Chang; Horolma Pamjav; Maxat Zhabagin; Shaoqing Wen

doi:10.3389/fgene.2023.1130104

Editorial: The genetic history of human populations along the ancient silk road

Front Genet. 2023 Jan 24:14:1130104. doi: 10.3389/fgene.2023.1130104. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Xin Chang¹, Horolma Pamjav², Maxat Zhabagin³, Shaoqing Wen^{1

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Affiliations

¹ Institute of Archaeological Science, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
² Hungarian Institute for Forensic Sciences, Institute of Forensic Genetics, Budapest, Hungary.
³ National Center for Biotechnology, Astana, Kazakhstan.
⁴ MOE Laboratory for National Development and Intelligent Governance, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.
⁵ Center for the Belt and Road Archaeology and Ancient Civilizations, Fudan University, Shanghai, China.

No abstract available

Keywords: DNA genotyping; DNA sequencing; SNPs (single nucleotide polymorphism); STRs (short tandem repeats); Silk Road; Y chromosomal DNA; ancient DNA (aDNA); mtDNA.

Publication types

Editorial

Grants and funding

This work was supported by research grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (32070576), the Science Committee of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan (Grant No. AP09259560), the B&R Joint Laboratory of Eurasian Anthropology (18490750300), and European Research Council (ERC) grant to Dan Xu (ERC-2019-ADG-883700-TRAM).