Reconstructing the genetic admixture history of Tai-Kadai and Sinitic people: insights from genome-wide SNP data from South China

• Main Authors: Wang, Meng-Ge, He, Guanglin, Zou, Xing, Chen, Peng-Yu, Wang, Zheng, Tang, Ren-Kuan, Yang, Xiao-Min, Chen, Jing, Yang, Mei-Qing, Li, Ying-Xiang, Liu, Jing, Wang, Fei, Zhao, Jing, Guo, Jian-Xin, Hu, Rong, Wei, Lan-Hai, Chen, Gang, Yeh, Hui-Yuan, Wang, Chuan-Chao
• Other Authors: School of Humanities
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2023
• Subjects: Science::Biological sciences; Ancestral Northern East Asian; Demographic History
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/170550
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

South China (SC) was a region with mixed rice–millet farming during the Middle Neolithic period and was also suggested to be the homeland of Tai-Kadai (TK)-speaking people. However, the formations of inland TK-speaking people and southwestern Hans are far from clear due to very few studies on this s...