Genomic continuity of Tai-Kadai-speaking populations from Southern China to Northern Thailand
Jatupol Kampuansai, Suwapat Sathupak, Wibhu Kutanan, Metawee Srikummool, Tanapon Seetaraso, Natcha Chaisoung · 2025
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Description
The Tai-Kadai languages stretch from southern China into northern Thailand, and the genes of their speakers carry the route's history. Jatupol Kampuansai and co-authors generated new genome-wide data in 2025 for Lue and Yong communities in northern Thailand and set them beside data from across the region. The corridor through the upper Mekong has funneled migration for millennia.
Thai Tai-Kadai speakers draw most of their ancestry from East Asia, blended with Southeast Asian strands. Northern groups lean toward Dai-related sources, the northeast toward Lao-related ones, and central and southern groups add Austroasiatic and South Asian threads. The authors read the pattern as sustained migration with local mixing, founder effects, and resettlement layered on top.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Jatupol Kampuansai, Suwapat Sathupak, Wibhu Kutanan, Metawee Srikummool, Tanapon Seetaraso, Natcha Chaisoung |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 66 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |