The genome of a great - great - ... grandson (34th-generation) of the legendary conqueror Genghis Khan has been sequenced.
This was the first individual genome sequencing of a Mongolian, said Zhou Huanmin, project leader and head of the biological research lab at the Inner Mongolia Agricultural University. The results of this study are important for the detection of ethnicity-specific genome inheritances and the evolutionary features of Mongolians.
The the research team will continue to sequence the genomes of another 199 ethnic Mongolians and build a database consisting of Mongolian genetic code.
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