AN AMERICAN WHITE WOMAN OBSERVED -- MY mother always said I must be part Mongolian, because of my lotus-pale complexion and squid-ink black hair. “Something you’re not telling me?” I was tempted to ask. But I knew she’d visited Mongolia with my father long after I was born. What I didn’t know is that one out of every 200 males on earth is related to Genghis Khan. An international team of geneticists conducting a 10-year study of men living in what once was the Mongolian empire has discovered that a surprisingly large number share the identical Y chromosome, which is passed down only from father to son. One individual’s Y chromosome can be found in 16 million men in Asia, from Manchuria, near the Sea of Japan, to Uzbekistan and Afghanistan in Central Asia. -- opinionator.blogs.nytimes/2012/03/03/genes-on-the-march/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0
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