Chinese Scientists Announce the First Complete Sequencing of Mongolian Genome:
In this study, the DNA sample was from a male adult who belongs to the Mongolian “Royal Family” and is the 34th generation descendant of Genghis Khan. “The sample is very valuable for the study with a full record of family pedigree and no background of intermarriage between other ethnic groups.” said Professor Huanmin Zhou, Project Investigator and Director of Science and Technology at IMAU.
There has long been talk of the famous Genghis Khan haplotype, a Y chromosomal lineage which seems to have issued from Mongolia ~1,000 years ago. Obviously the most probable, if not necessarily likely (depending on who you talk to)*, candidate for the source of this lineage is the family of Genghis Khan. For centuries paternal descent from Genghis Khan (and to a lesser extent his brothers, such as Khasar, whose descendants became prominent subordinates to ...
