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Saturday, November 5, 2005

1.5 Million Chinese Descendants of One Man

From BBC NEWS:
Research into an unusually high prevalence of a particular set of genes in China has suggested that 1.5 million Chinese men are direct descendants of Giocangga, the grandfather of the founder of the Qing dynasty.
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