A 6000-year genomic transect in the middle Yellow River
Rui Wang, Shiwei Li, Guohe Han, Hao Ma, Yukai Lin, Li Jiang, Ziwei Qin, Fulin Ding, Xiaoyan Li, Ting Chen, Wang Shen, Jihua Zhang, Songan Jin, Yuding Zeng, Hongbo Zhai, Yiqiang Lou, Qian Song, Meng Zhang, Xiaomin Yang, Jiajing Zheng, Yu Xu, Tianyou Bai, Le Tao, Haifeng He, Kongyang Zhu, Shaoqing Wen, Li Jin, Xingtao Wei, Caixia Li, Yawei Zhou, Chuan-Chao Wang · 2026
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Rui Wang and a large team present 112 ancient genomes from China's middle Yellow River region in this 2026 study. The river valley is a birthplace of East Asian farming culture, yet its early people left few genetic records. The new genomes come from eight dig sites and span a long stretch from about 6200 years ago to recent centuries.
Later people in the valley traced most of their ancestry to the earliest local group, farmers of the Yangshao culture. Two later shifts reshaped the picture: one near 4500 years ago tied to the Longshan period, then a slow spread of central Henan ancestry across the basin. Two burial sites also showed how status could pass within families, or how marriage ties could matter more than blood lines.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Rui Wang, Shiwei Li, Guohe Han, Hao Ma, Yukai Lin, Li Jiang, Ziwei Qin, Fulin Ding, Xiaoyan Li, Ting Chen, Wang Shen, Jihua Zhang, Songan Jin, Yuding Zeng, Hongbo Zhai, Yiqiang Lou, Qian Song, Meng Zhang, Xiaomin Yang, Jiajing Zheng, Yu Xu, Tianyou Bai, Le Tao, Haifeng He, Kongyang Zhu, Shaoqing Wen, Li Jin, Xingtao Wei, Caixia Li, Yawei Zhou, Chuan-Chao Wang |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 48087 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |