Comments on: Eye on DNA Headlines for 3 January 2008 http://www.eyeondna.com/2008/01/03/eye-on-dna-headlines-for-3-january-2008/ How will it change your life? Mon, 19 Jul 2010 13:56:21 +0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Hsien-Hsien Lei, PhD http://www.eyeondna.com/2008/01/03/eye-on-dna-headlines-for-3-january-2008/comment-page-1/#comment-34034 Hsien-Hsien Lei, PhD Fri, 04 Jan 2008 11:25:47 +0000 http://www.eyeondna.com/2008/01/03/eye-on-dna-headlines-for-3-january-2008/#comment-34034 Thanks, Razib. That makes a lot of sense. Most of us Chinese are admixed and it will be interesting when ancestry testing is refined enough to give each of us the kind of info you provided. In any case, Prof. Lai's statement is almost certainly politically motivated given the situation between mainland China and Taiwan. eek Thanks, Razib. That makes a lot of sense. Most of us Chinese are admixed and it will be interesting when ancestry testing is refined enough to give each of us the kind of info you provided. In any case, Prof. Lai’s statement is almost certainly politically motivated given the situation between mainland China and Taiwan. eek

]]> By: razib http://www.eyeondna.com/2008/01/03/eye-on-dna-headlines-for-3-january-2008/comment-page-1/#comment-33929 razib Thu, 03 Jan 2008 19:39:31 +0000 http://www.eyeondna.com/2008/01/03/eye-on-dna-headlines-for-3-january-2008/#comment-33929 <i>We, Formosans, are all Aborigines,” proclaims Professor Francis Lai of Lowell Massachusetts in the Taipei Times. He claims that scientists have found that Hoklo and Hakka-speaking Taiwanese share 85% of their genome with Formosan Aborigines. Prof. Lai believes this debunks the myth that Taiwanese have Han Chinese ancestry. So perhaps I am more exotic than I thought!</i> there's no detail on this. cavalli-sforza's work suggested that south chinese clustered with southeast asians and north chinese with koreans & japanese, but newer work suggests that south chinese might be a hybrid population (male mediated gene flow from north china). We, Formosans, are all Aborigines,” proclaims Professor Francis Lai of Lowell Massachusetts in the Taipei Times. He claims that scientists have found that Hoklo and Hakka-speaking Taiwanese share 85% of their genome with Formosan Aborigines. Prof. Lai believes this debunks the myth that Taiwanese have Han Chinese ancestry. So perhaps I am more exotic than I thought!

there’s no detail on this. cavalli-sforza’s work suggested that south chinese clustered with southeast asians and north chinese with koreans & japanese, but newer work suggests that south chinese might be a hybrid population (male mediated gene flow from north china).

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