Common ancestor of Han Chinese, Japanese and Koreans dated to 3000 – 3600 years ago

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Common ancestor of Han Chinese, Japanese and Koreans dated to 3000 – 3600 years ago

New research published in Hereditas has dated the most recent common ancestor of the three major East Asian ethnic groups to the time of the Shang dynasty using a genome-wide study. Here to tell us about their findings and the specific genetic connections and distinctions between these populations is Dr. Shuhua Xu, one of the authors of the study.

http://blogs.biomedcentral.com/on-biology/2018/04/10/common-ancestor-of-han-chinese-japanese-and-koreans-dated-to-3000-3600-years-ago/