Genomic history and forensic characteristics of Sherpa highlanders on the Tibetan Plateau inferred from high-resolution InDel panel and genome-wide SNPs

• Main Authors: Wang, Mengge, Du, Weian, Tang, Renkuan, Liu, Yan, Zou, Xing, Yuan, Didi, Wang, Zheng, Liu, Jing, Guo, Jianxin, Yang, Xiaomin, Chen, Jing, Yang, Meiqing, Zhang, Xianpeng, Wei, Lan-Hai, Yuan, Haibing, Yeh, Hui-Yuan, Wang, Chuan-Chao, Liu, Chao, He, Guanglin
• Other Authors: School of Humanities
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Science::Biological sciences; Forensic Genetics; Genetic Admixture History
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/160173
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Sherpa people, one of the high-altitude hypoxic adaptive populations, mainly reside in Nepal and the southern Tibet Autonomous Region. The genetic origin and detailed evolutionary profiles of Sherpas remain to be further explored and comprehensively characterized. Here we analyzed the newly-generate...