Genetic evidence of a recent Tibetan ancestry to Sherpas in the Himalayan region

Sherpas living around the Himalayas are renowned as high-altitude mountain climbers but when and where the Sherpa people originated from remains contentious. In this study, we collected DNA samples from 582 Sherpas living in Nepal and Tibet Autonomous Region of China to study the genetic diversity o...

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Main Authors: Bhandari, Sushil, Zhang, Xiaoming, Cui, Chaoying, Bianba, Liao, Shiyu, Peng, Yi, Zhang, Hui, Xiang, Kun, Shi, Hong, Ouzhuluobu, Baimakongzhuo, Gonggalanzi, Liu, Shimin, Gengdeng, Wu, Tianyi, Qi, Xuebin, Su, Bing
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2015
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4633682/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26538459
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep16249
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