Addendum to Ancient DNA data from Mengzi Ren, a Late Pleistocene individual from Southeast Asia, cannot be reliably used in population genetic analysis.
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| Abstract | In addition to the issues pointed out in Tabin et al , the MZR data from Zhang et. al 2022 are suggestive of high levels of contamination from a source similar to modern Han Chinese, the majority population in the country where MZR was sequenced. In fact, MZR can be modeled entirely as Han-related ancestry and noise. These results raise further concerns about the veracity of the MZR data and thus the paper's historical conclusions. |
| Year of Publication | 2025
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| Journal | bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology
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| Date Published | 03/2025
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| ISSN | 2692-8205
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| DOI | 10.1101/2025.03.24.645126
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| PubMed ID | 40196503
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