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Jiujin Xu

Researcher at Chinese Academy of Sciences

Publications -  6
Citations -  1773

Jiujin Xu is an academic researcher from Chinese Academy of Sciences. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Protein–protein interaction. The author has an hindex of 6, co-authored 6 publications receiving 1668 citations.

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Male demography in East Asia: a north-south contrast in human population expansion times

TL;DR: It is suggested that the northern populations expanded earlier because they could exploit the abundant megafauna of the “Mammoth Steppe,” while the southern populations could increase in number only when a warmer and more stable climate led to more plentiful plant resources such as tubers.
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Recent Spread of a Y-Chromosomal Lineage in Northern China and Mongolia

TL;DR: It is suggested that the Y-chromosomal lineage that is unusually frequent in northeastern China and Mongolia was spread by Qing Dynasty nobility, who were a privileged elite sharing patrilineal descent from Giocangga (died 1582), the grandfather of Manchu leader Nurhaci.
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MSY2: a slowly evolving minisatellite on the human Y chromosome which provides a useful polymorphic marker in Chinese populations.

TL;DR: The second human Y-specific minisatellite, MSY2 (DYS440), consists of three or four copies of a 99-110bp repeat unit and is located about 1kb upstream of the DBY gene.