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The 11 fathers of Asia: 800 million modern men are descended from a handful of ancient leaders - including Genghis Khan
Geneticists have been able to find eleven distinctive sequences in Y-chromosomes - the chunk of DNA that is only carried by men - that are persistent in modern populations in Asia.
By systematically analysing the DNA of more than 5,000 men, they have been able to trace these male lineages to their approximate 'founding fathers'.
This map shows ten of the 11 lineages (labelled DC) with the approximate date when they originated and how they appear to have spread around the continent. The arrows show how the lineage may have spread
Read more: Eleven fathers of Asia: 800 million modern men descended from ancient leaders - including Genghis Khan | Daily Mail Online
- Scientists from the University of Leicester traced DNA in modern men to 'founding fathers' that lived across Asia between 1300BC and 1100AD
- The geneticists traced each the eleven lineages back to their potential roots in the Middle East, India, China, Mongolia and south east Asia
- They analysed Y chromosomes from 5,000 men from 127 populations
- 16 million men are thought to be directly descended from Genghis Khan
- 1.5 million are descended from 14th Century Chinese leader Giocangga
Geneticists have been able to find eleven distinctive sequences in Y-chromosomes - the chunk of DNA that is only carried by men - that are persistent in modern populations in Asia.
By systematically analysing the DNA of more than 5,000 men, they have been able to trace these male lineages to their approximate 'founding fathers'.
This map shows ten of the 11 lineages (labelled DC) with the approximate date when they originated and how they appear to have spread around the continent. The arrows show how the lineage may have spread
Read more: Eleven fathers of Asia: 800 million modern men descended from ancient leaders - including Genghis Khan | Daily Mail Online