{"id":66464,"date":"2012-03-31T02:14:20","date_gmt":"2012-03-31T10:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=16135"},"modified":"2012-03-31T02:14:20","modified_gmt":"2012-03-31T10:14:20","slug":"the-real-secret-history-of-the-mongols","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2012\/03\/31\/the-real-secret-history-of-the-mongols\/","title":{"rendered":"The real secret history of the Mongols?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2012\/03\/1-s2.0-S0002929707605874-gr2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16136\" title=\"1-s2.0-S0002929707605874-gr2\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/files\/2012\/03\/1-s2.0-S0002929707605874-gr2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"565\" height=\"293\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thank god for steppe hyper-patriarchy; it&#8217;s a model which we can test. <a href=\"http:\/\/dienekes.blogspot.com\/2012\/03\/three-quarters-of-kerey-clan-men-belong.html\">Dienekes<\/a> points me to a <a href=\"http:\/\/digitalcommons.wayne.edu\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=1692&amp;context=humbiol\">paper<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/digitalcommons.wayne.edu\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=1692&amp;context=humbiol\">The Y-chromosome C3* star-cluster attributed to Genghis Khan&#8217;s descendants is present at high frequency in the Kerey clan from Kazakhstan<\/a>, which is notable for increasing sample coverage of the distribution of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/2010\/08\/1-in-200-men-direct-descendants-of-genghis-khan\/\">Genghis Khan haplotype<\/a>.&#8221; As you might recall in 2003 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0002929707605874\">a paper reported<\/a> that a particular Y-chromosomal phylogeny was extremely common in Central Eurasia, and, that it had expanded rather rapidly starting approximately ~1,000 years ago. The natural supposition was that this was connected to the rise of Genghis Khan, from whom male-line descent in particular has become a matter of pride and prestige across the former domains under his rule. Subsequent researchers have supported this finding insofar as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.springerlink.com\/content\/204l1ng3q6415401\/\">distribution of the haplotype<\/a> does tend to drop off among the &#8220;Western Mongols,&#8221; who were for various reasons marginal during the time of Genghis Khan, and whose ruling class were subsequently diminished in part due to their lack of a Genghiside pedigree.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The new paper above presents the novel result that the\u00a0Kereys of Kazakhstan have the highest &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank god for steppe hyper-patriarchy; it&#8217;s a model which we can test. Dienekes points me to a paper, The Y-chromosome C3* star-cluster attributed to Genghis Khan&#8217;s descendants is present at high frequency in the Kerey clan from Kazakhstan&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,481],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthroplogy","category-human-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66464"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66794,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66464\/revisions\/66794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}