2026年4月6日
Months after its Chinese release, the Donghulin study was picked up by international archaeology media, spotlighting an unknown northern East Asian lineage that outlasted the Ice Age — and contrasting it with Europe's replacement model.
2026年4月2日
The Westlake University team and Wenzhou Medical University built 1,116 diploid Chinese genome assemblies, uncovering 405.3 million base pairs of novel sequences—13% of the human genome—including 26.2 million bp with clear functional roles, providing an East Asian reference framework for diagnostics and drug development.
2026年4月1日
The Y chromosome passes only father to son — a paternal molecular clock. A plain-language tour of O1, O2, N, and C/D/F, and how a study of ~18,000 samples redraws East Asian male migration.
2026年3月30日
Integrating 17,740 modern and 977 ancient Y chromosomes — plus 1,045 newly sequenced individuals — this study builds the highest-resolution East Asian paternal tree to date, linking farming expansions to O-lineage growth and separating inland and coastal routes.
2026年3月25日
Were the cave-burial people of Guangxi the ancestors of today's Kra–Dai and Hmong–Mien speakers? Ancient DNA says yes — and reveals that cross-border Hmong–Mien kept more southern ancestry than their kin inside China.
2026年3月23日
Fourteen new genomes from Guangxi cave burials confirm them as ancestors of Kra–Dai and Hmong–Mien speakers, while revealing an unexpected gap: Southeast Asian Hmong–Mien retain far more ancient southern ancestry than their counterparts inside China.
2026年3月18日
Reconstructing ancestors isn't magic: it stitches together chromosome segments shared across many descendants. Here is how it works, how it differs from ethnicity estimates, and why Eurocentric databases leave East Asian users with gaps.
2026年3月16日
23andMe's new Reconstructed Ancestors and DNA Relatives Clustering features infer the ancestry of untested deceased relatives — the company's first major ancestry update since its nonprofit transition.
2026年3月11日
Why does the DNA of a Donghulin woman from 11,000 years ago force a rewrite of northern East Asian prehistory? A plain-language guide to "deeply divergent lineages" and the slow transition to millet farming.
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