East and West admixture in eastern China of Tang Dynasty inferred from ancient human genomes.

ABSTRACT: The ancestry composition and Sinicisation process of the descendants of the immigrants of Hu people living in ancient China are largely unknown due to the lack of genetic evidence. Tang Dynasty people in Fudamen cemetery () excavated from Shandong province in eastern China are believed to be related to the descendants of Hu people, as some of the individuals with the surnames An (). The genetic origin of the Fudamen population requires genetic clarification using ancient DNA data. Here we successfully obtain genome-wide SNP data for 17 Tang dynasty individuals from Fudamen cemetery. Based on autosomal data, although all Fudamen individuals show high levels of middle reaches of Yellow River-related ancestry as previously published historical period Shandong populations, 2 Fudamen individual

SUBMITTER: Wang R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11814302 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature